Word: twain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of Fredric March was something else again. Silvery glory went to his head, to his upper lip, to his eyebrows, transformed him into the most reasonable facsimile of Samuel Langhorne Clemens this side of Mark Twain...
Beer and Soccer. Today strangers who meet Shostakovich for the first time find him shy, serious, scholarly. At parties or among musicians, he unbends, jokes, out-drinks his companions. He likes automobiles, fast driving, U.S. magazines, reads the U.S. authors who most appeal to Russia-Mark Twain, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair. Strictly a city man, he dislikes dachas (Russia's summer bungalows), and komaryi (Russia's multitudinous mosquitoes...
...MARK TWAIN AT WORK-Bernard DeVoto-Harvard...
...work of Mark Twain is America's literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...
...people than through a study of their language." Hence his great hope that some day the men he is teaching will help destroy the old idea of "East is East and West is West." "The first prerequisite to a lasting peace," he insists, "is a meeting of the twain...