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...first book, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TIME, March 2, 1970), John Seelye rewrote Mark Twain as an answer to nearly a century of carping critics. In The Kid, he makes American folklore and literary archetypes jump through hoops, in obvious appreciation of Leslie Fiedler's remark that "to understand the West as somehow a joke comes a little closer to getting it straight...
...proletarian manner. "Some of our work needs to he rewritten and repolished," he said. "The times keep progressing, and our thinking must keep progressing." Teng is familiar with the major Russian works of the Lenin and Stalin eras, as well as with such writers as Chekhov, Pushkin, Hemingway, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. But he had never heard of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or of any contemporary American novelists...
...made on a budget of 'frozen rupees' from things like The Sound of Music, but then it was never pushed enough. The Museum of Modern Art has a copy, tho'; it might be revived. What it was about? Well, you know, the old theme of 'East, West, never the twain shall meet...
...Mark Twain Tonight. Superb characterization by Hal Holbrook. Aquarius Theatre, Washington St. 8:30, March...
...shouldn't surprise you. In those days I was always being compared to Huckleberry Finn. You know how he ended? According to Mark Twain, as a "justice of the peace in a remote village in Montana, and was a good citizen and greatly respected." If you get slipped a Finn like that, what can you reasonably expect...