Word: twain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usefully, but not in a 400-page book. Among the subjects not mentioned are the Spanish-American War, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the building of the Erie Canal, the suffragettes, baseball, universal secondary education and the establishment of the land-grant colleges, the writing of Thoreau, Melville, Twain, O'Neill, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway...
...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators...
...literature breaks down into categories, usually determined by age, sometimes by common experience. For example, Emerson and Whittier are grouped together as "Elder Statesmen," Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman take "a philosophical view of the whole affair," while James, Twain, Howells, and Adams are the "Malingerers." Within these categories Aaron analyzes particular responses and finds that, in spite of the collective failure to come to grips with the War, the conflict was a disturbing and compelling experience for each. Especially to men like Twain and Howells, the War marked the turning point in their own American experience--each went through...
...house-to-house search of Santiago's San Borja district-a fashionable leftist stronghold -broke through locked doors and tossed thousands of books and papers out of apartment windows. Among the works consumed in impromptu street bonfires were Mao's Little Red Book, novels by Mark Twain, economic studies by John Kenneth Galbraith-and old copies of TIME...
...oldest of the late Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children and a senior studying American history and literature at Radcliffe College; and David Lee Townsend, 25, doctoral candidate in English and American literature at Harvard who tutored her in Southern writers. Kennedy and Townsend are such Mark Twain fans that in the summer of '72 they recruited three friends to help build a raft and ride the Mississippi for 21 days in Huck Finn style...