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...Mackerel Plaza, a pre-Broadway tryout of a new comedy by William Mc-Cleery, is based on Peter De Vries's novel about a widowed clergyman whose plans to remarry are frustrated by a campaign to name the town square after his first wife. Hal (Mark Twain) Holbrook stars. Cyril Ritchard directs. Westport. Conn.; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Louisville...
...Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Crete, and back, of course, to dear old untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American traveler since the innocents went abroad in Mark Twain's generation. The book is dedicated to Simone de Beauvoir, doyenne of French existentialists-a gesture of some generosity in the face of Algren's appearance as a non-hero in De Beauvoir's last novel...
There are those, like Moliere, Cervantes, Twain and Thurber, who assert their position against the world humorously?for everyone can laugh, but only individuals have humor. There are the explorers, discoverers and obsessive questioners; their individuality is not necessarily greater because they chose to die, like Socrates, or smaller because they saved their necks, like Galileo. There are the obscure men who, by an accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms...
...wrote Mark Twain about Lake Tahoe, a 22-mile-long scenic jewel 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, and so the lake remained until about a decade ago. But it lies athwart the north-south line between two of the nation's most superlative states: the boomingest-California-and the gamblingest-Nevada. And this has been all but the ruination of Mark Twain's "noble sheet of blue water...
Actually Clem and Mark are plainly intended to be stand-ins for one man- Mark Twain. According to a favorite Fiedler theory, the true rebel was the private Sam Clemens as opposed to the public entertainer Mark Twain. Never these twain will meet-or part. The Second Stone is a skillfully contrived dramatization of this dichotomy. Clem is the defiant Huck Finn who has "lit out for the frontier" with his big "no" to "the world of mothers." Mark is Tom Sawyer, the pseudo rebel "with a note in his pocket to Aunt Polly" saying he loves...