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...worst disaster yet in Jewish history? So goes the question, still reaching toward yesterday. Yet the answer lies in the present, in what Israel is right now. For all the turmoil it suffers, the country remains a miracle. Read some 19th century accounts of Palestine by travelers like Mark Twain and note their dismay at the dreariness around them. Then look at the Hula Valley in the north, with its plums and avocados springing from a former swamp; or at the universities and concert halls; or, abstractly, at the only working democracy in the region. The cause for outrage...
...Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain...
...most reissued works by 19th century American authors, offered at a late 20th century price. And the Library of America, the new publisher of these four new-old books, has already committed itself to a long roll of future bets. Next fall it will issue beginning collections of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, and two volumes of Jack London; in a year, it promises another pair of books devoted to Melville and Hawthorne, plus two volumes of the writings of Historian Francis Parkman. The library lists 25 titles through the fall of 1984. Its $1.8 million bankroll from...
...Mark Twain, Moscow-style
Despite the cooling of detente and the fading of cultural exchanges between the two superpowers, the Soviets have created a three-hour, three-part television production of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that is astonishingly faithful to the spirit and detail of the book. Says Director Stanislav Govorukhin, 46, who has treasured Twain's novel since he was Tom Sawyer's age: "I treated it with the same care that I would a work by Tolstoy or Chekhov...