Word: twain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are strange misproportions too. High Noon, as a parable of the cold war, merits a paragraph. Mark Twain's career is summed up in a sentence. Chief Joseph's picture is in the book, but not his moving farewell to his Nez Perce Indians: "I will fight no more forever." The Great Republic has long and genuinely informative passages on demographics -but too often the people are simply numbers, without faces or names...
...Wife Rosalynn once took a correspondence course in great operas (she complained that he played the records too loud). After two months in the White House, he has made three visits to Kennedy Center -for a Washington Opera Society production of Madame Butterfly, Hal Hoibrook's Mark Twain Tonight! and a New York City Ballet Company performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...SHOW, the individual tour de force, has become a major theatrical art form in recent years, and no performer has mastered the genre more completely than James Whitmore. Although Hal Holbrook displayed a keener sense of comic timing in his uproarious portrayal of Samuel Clemens in Mark Twain Tonight, and Julie Harris added a depth of psychological feeling to her Emily Dickinson that Whitmore falls just short of attaining, no one has demonstrated the versatile range and consistent excellence of Whitmore in this type of theater...
Still, the evidence is not all in. Carter went off to the Kennedy Center one night last week to see Hal Holbrook perform as Mark Twain, a man who punctured self-important politicians. And the President planned to get over to the National Theater later to watch James Whitmore in Bully!, a roaring portrayal of Teddy Roosevelt. It might help when he gets there if Carter recalls that sometimes, when the sun was up and his juices were flowing, Roosevelt would knock off work at noon and take his family for a picnic down along the Potomac River. It might...
When Mark Twain visited Vassar in 1885, he had, he said, a "ghastly" time and thought the college president "a sour old saint." But now, whether Twain's ghost likes it or not, he is at Vassar to stay. The college has joyously accepted from the daughter of Twain's grandniece Jean Webster McKinney, '01, a collection of the 19th century humorist's letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust...