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...Stevenson offered further clarification on how to pronounce his name, quoted Mark Twain on the subject of his vice presidential grandfather: Philologists sweat and lexicographers bray, But the best they can do is to call him Adlay. But at longshoremen's picnics, where accents are high, Fair Harvard's not present, so they call him Ad-lie. Longshoremen notwithstanding, Princetonian Stevenson insists that the Harvards had it right...
...found that Argentine textbooks were shot through with excerpts from the works of Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Browning, Grimm, Schiller and Turgenev-all subversive influences, in the Peronista view. "A repulsive state of affairs," declared the governor. He named a committee to scourge the foreign authors from the schoolbooks. "The schools," he decreed, "must teach the child the mysticism, the soul and the sentiment of Peronismo...
Feted by the Federal Bar Association for his "constant and unselfish support" of Government employees, former Government Employee J. Howard McGrath, who last April was fired by the President from his job as U.S. Attorney General, recalled the Mark Twain character who got ridden out of town on a rail. The deportee's words, as quoted by Lawyer McGrath: "If it were not for the honor of the occasion, I should rather have walked...
...Boers are a little different. Fifty-six years ago, in Following the Equator, Mark Twain described the Boer as: "deeply religious, profoundly ignorant, dull, obstinate, bigoted ...proud of his Dutch and Huguenot origin and its religious and military history . . . He has stood stock still in South Africa for two centuries and a half, and would like to stand still till the end of time...
...recent behavior of the Boer-dominated Nationalist government justifies Twain's contempt. It exemplifies a deep and virulent racism which would put the Confederacy to shame. Now a desire to deprive the British-dominated United Party of its support from the "coloreds" in the already overdue national election has driven Prime Minister Malan to extremes...