Word: tanners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST PORTAGE, by Walfer O'Meara (289 pp.; Houghfon Mifflin; $5). In 1789 a ten-year-old boy named John Tanner was stolen from a frontier farm in Kentucky by a band of Ojibway Indians. Tanner was raised by the tribe; he wore a breechcloth, carried a tomahawk, and married an Indian woman. But he never really felt at ease among the Indians...
...mature man, he found the same sense of alienation when he tried to return to the whites. In 1830 a U.S. Army doctor at Sault Ste. Marie recorded Tanner's narrative. To flesh out the account, Author O'Meara, a former advertising copywriter turned historical novelist, falls back on his formidable store of frontier lore and suggests that the American Indian was something less than nature's nobleman, e.g., some tribes had a habit of roasting captured children alive. But O'Meara cannot get away from the fact that he just does not know enough about...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
...Finland's parties agree that, in foreign affairs, the country's only hope is friendly neutrality toward Russia, but domestically, there is strong opposition to Communism-particularly by Vainö Tanner's Social Democrats. Aiming his words directly at the Social Democrats, Kekkonen demanded that his political opponents retire permanently from public life. Said he: "We have been repeatedly reminded of what our national interests require, and it is time to put an end to an unrealistic attitude which has already led its adherents to a dead end. As they leave the scene, they know that they...
...York Times's Henry Tanner was also served with an expulsion notice, which was later withdrawn...