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...Apple Tree. A Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bok adaptation of short stories by Mark Twain, Frank ("The Lady and the Tiger") Stockton and Jules Feiffer, 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. Tickets...
...goods, of its hospitals for the treatment of Arab sick and its research institutes for the training of Arab students. As in an earlier speech in Philadelphia-where he took his text from the biblical inscription on the Liberty Bell*-Rabin quoted from American heroes, including Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Twain and Jonas Phillips, a Jewish soldier who fought in the Revolutionary...
They have a way of reaching for the sort of comparison that Mark Twain called a "stretcher." The most extreme current stretchers: U.S. involvement in Angola's civil strife is the country's gravest foreign intervention since Viet Nam (which, considering the difference in magnitude in the two situations, is misleading); the current recession is the worst since the Great Depression (which takes no account of how much worse the Depression was or of economic cushions built in since the 1930s...
...slick weekly magazine comes about only as a result of a particular view of the world: that people are basically crazy, and that the only way to survive at all is through laughter. This philosophy has been carried through the centuries by the likes of Chaucer, Sheridan, Twain and Beerbohm. For the past fifty years the cartoonists in The New Yorker have espoused it, and have presented our frailties to us with wit, grace and, most of all, total disrespect for the supposed importance of our lives...
Hold it. Saroyan's Armenians are no more sentimentalized than the Jews of Sholem Aleichem, the English of Charles Dickens, the Scots of Robert Burns, the Irish of Sean O'Casey or the Americans of Mark Twain. Read My Name Is Aram again, please...