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...cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used." Hemingway has indeed remained in the carefully delineated, cut-to-the-bone world of simple, palpable acts. But at his best, Hemingway has a sense of fate recalling Melville, an American heartiness recalling Mark Twain (who never used big dictionary words either). Hemingway can carve icebergs of prose; only a few words on paper convey much more beneath the surface. The taut, economical style contains more than meets the casual eye-the dignity of man and also his imperfection, the recognition that there...
Though juvenile crime is more fully reported nowadays than ever before, Dr. Lindner still feels that there is a real contrast between the woes of today's youth and "those classical descriptions of the storms of adolescence detailed by Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Dickens, Joyce, Mann and the rest." These, he says, were all inward storms. "Lust was in their creations, also vast and devouring if nameless hungers, as well as cosmic yearnings, strange thirsts, occult sensations, murderous rages, vengeful fantasies and imaginings that catalogue all of sin and crime. But, unlike the sorry six from Brooklyn...
What has Grand Rapids, Mich, to do with the Far East? Why do these twain keep meeting...
...Martini Oracle. Today Virginia City and the Territorial Enterprise are staging a comeback. The community (pop. 2,450) is up to 17 saloons. The newspaper is Nevada's biggest weekly (circ. 4,900) and proudly bills itself as "Mark Twain's Newspaper" in memory of the two years Twain spent on it as reporter, city editor and publisher. But Twain would hardly recognize his old sheet today with its florid ads for the Stork Club, Rolls-Royces, and Chicago's Pump Room, despite the lavish use of type left over from the Gay Nineties...
Healthy Antidote. Whether he goes to college or not. he certainly gets a taste of it. In English composition last week, students were analyzing the fine points of style in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi. In biology they were examining the dominant and recessive characteristics of a generation of fruit flies, and in the humanities course their discussion ranged from early Greek metrical forms to a comparison of a Beethoven string quartet and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. In social studies they have sampled everything from De Tocqueville to William Graham Sumner. But however tough...