Word: twain
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...philosophy book to pass the time. At noon the contest is still fierce. Mr. Nehru is now standing on his head in contemplation. At length the sun casts its red rays over the scene. Taut, the golden roe shimmers in the sunset-taut until, suddenly, it snaps in twain. The handkerchief flutters to the ground. Both teams fall backward in confusion. Nehru turns on his feet to pronounce the decision...
...rope has broken in twain, so must it be with Germany...
...body. It revealed more than it ever laconically said. Though he never went to college, he picked his prose teachers well, starting with the King James Bible. His love of nature and the vernacular, together with a kind of barefoot male camaraderie, linked him fraternally with Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway was the first of the '205 expatriates to knock on Gertrude Stein's door, and he learned the most. She taught him the impact of simple repetition and the rhythm of words...
...problems. And when the U.S. gave out territorially, Americans greedily tried for a share of the overseas market. Even poor old Walt Whitman has to share the blame, because he applauded "personal regeneration." When confronted by a problem, Whitman walked away, as many of his heirs from Mark Twain to William Faulk ner were to do, and became "a wayfarer down the open road...
When Mark Twain called Heidelberg "the last possibility of the beautiful." Germany's oldest university was gloriously awash with the Student Prince atmosphere of beer mugs, sabers and sashes. It was still the citadel that had beckoned Spinoza with the promise. "You will have the utmost freedom of philosophizing." U.S. students in the 19th century swarmed there for the great flowering of scholarship and the pleasant beguilements of student life...