Word: twain
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...Mark Twain, President Grant, New York Senator Roscoe Conkling, Representatives Is James G. Elaine and James A. Garfield...
...rights and pleasures of homosexuals, and called for a legal curb on human breeding. He has castigated America as "the land of the dull and the home of the literal" and repeatedly predicted the "smashup" of the "last empire on earth." Like many a gadfly before him, from Twain to Mencken, Vidal has won fame and wealth by biting the land that feeds...
Author Gates is best understood alongside the 19th century's great moral improvers. She is sister-in-arms to Melville, Hawthorne, Twain and Mrs. Stowe. All wanted their writing to better the public they were writing for-even when they despaired of civic improvement. Gates has yet to write a book that liberates as fully as it lacerates. But she cares about the national identity as no other living American novelist does. If she can steady her grip on her terrifying, transmogrifying wit, there may yet be a great novel in the already vast Gates canon...
...Apple Tree. A Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bok adaptation of short stories by Mark Twain, Jules Feiffer and Frank ("The Lady and the Tiger") Stockton, performed in a cabaret setting with pre-and post-curtain entertainment. Presented by the Hubs Pub Theatre at the Ramada Inn, 1234 Soldier's Field Road. Performances Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, at 8 p.m., through March 2. Ticket...
...difference between the right word and the almost right word," Mark Twain once observed, "is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Since Twain's day, in the view of many newspaper editors, a plague of fireflies has filled the sky: neologisms proliferate and the rules of grammar have raveled badly. To deal with the situation, the Associated Press and United Press International are preparing a new joint stylebook, and the New York Times has just issued a revised 231-page Manual of Style and Usage (Quadrangle; $10), though the last version appeared only 14 years...