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There is no such thing as being immoral v. being moral. If a person doesn't accept the established morals, he is living by his own standards, not being immoral. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Lead us into temptation ... it builds strong character...
...Perhaps it is that I am only 19, but the story of the ill-fated People's Park moved me to tears. It showed creativity and originality on one side, and blind obstinacy on the other. Perhaps Mark Twain explained it better...
...certain understated assurance that it will be appreciated. But, at the root of it, it is his white suit, tie, and shoes--what he once wore as "a marvelous form of aggression with no real consequences"--that give him the air of a neophyte, though somewhat subdued, Mark Twain, rather than that of an Americanized Oscar Wilde...
...hand or recite them aloud while Miss Keller touched her lips and throat and interpreted the vibrations. Recently it was announced that some 50,000 pieces of her correspondence have been bequeathed to the American Foundation for the Blind. "Are you really 70 years old?" she wrote to Mark Twain on his birthday in 1905. "Or is the report exaggerated like that of your death?" "You know, I think you and I will be better friends if we don't meet," Will Rogers once wrote to her. "They tell me you can feel one's face and tell...
...Twain Vein. The Smotherses were obviously trying to draw CBS into open battle. Dick was at an auto show in New York, but Tom began the week by traveling to Toronto to watch the show on the independent Canadian TV network. Next day he flew to New York to screen the program for newsmen. Ironically, it was one of the Smotherses' best-produced shows, featuring Tommy and Singer Nancy Wilson in a parody of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald ditties, several lively musical numbers, and ending with a tribute to Martin Luther King (not one of the networks...