Word: twain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chuckled at Historian Barbara Tuchman's [March 12] certainty that "every French town has an Avenue Victor Hugo. We never have a Mark Twain Street." Greetings from my house on Mark Twain Street, Palo Alto, Calif. We're one block west of Bret Harte Street...
Barbara Tuchman's lament is a well-intentioned reminder of our reluctance to honor our artists and thinkers. But the comparison is unfortunate. Twain was a humorist and satirist who was as much taken in by the Gilded Age as he was critical of it; Hugo was a lyric poet and epic novelist-and, what's more, a political hero. His exile was a symbol of opposition to tyranny...
...York City en route to Maui on United alone last year). Though here and there a McDonald's, a Pizza Hut, a Baskin-Robbins has sprouted, it is still possible on Maui to rediscover the idyllic Hawaii of swaying palms and hips that Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Jack London described so affectionately. More than 75% of the island is gloriously uninhabited and is likely to remain so. Only 2,650 acres are zoned for resort use, while 242,408 acres are reserved for cropland. Sugar cane is Maui's premier crop, yielding some 200,000 tons...
Barbara Tuchman, historian, deploring lack of American recognition of the arts: "Every French town has an Avenue Victor Hugo. We never have a Mark Twain Street...
...eccentricity or epitaph. Judge Fury collected wives and knives; "P.C.B." Terry, who once took a swig of that carcinogenic chemical, spent the rest of his life growing tomatoes that no one else dares to eat. Hypolite Hargrove made a small fortune concocting cocaine-spiked fruit drinks savored by Mark Twain and Jenny Lind...