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AUTHOR WILLIAM Hauptman has an American history fixation stronger than Bernard Bailyn's. Last year the American Repertory Theatre (ART) mounted his Big River, a dramatization of America a la Huck Finn. It proved an effective combination: Hauptman's middle-brow dramatic sensibilities were perfectly in key with Twain's wise hicks...
...Twain were alive today, he certainly would have written about Gillette. A real-life town in the real-life state of Wyoming, Gillette's brief history as a low-life. Mecca combined the worst features of "The Dodge City Story" and "Newark Today." Hauptman believes he has discovered in this town that most prized of creatures, the metaphor. Unfortunately, he has only come across a setting, or at best a case study...
...many a reader, Mark Twain is the foremost American novelist and his masterwork is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This year, the book's centenary, has brought several Huck Finn stage productions. It has also brought a renewed outcry from some who want the novel barred from school libraries. The book is racist, say these critics, who note that it repeatedly uses the word nigger and that it distresses young black students. Last week defenders of Huck as a satire of racism were bolstered by news that Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, had recorded his views of black and white...
Brigittee R. Gulya '86 of Winthrop House, who will address the parents at a Saturday morning assembly, said she plans to talk about the highlights of her three years here. "I'm mainly in step with the Mark Twain saying, how schooling doesn't get in the way of education...
...does one capitalize of such an unexpected success? Mark Twain followed Tom Sawver with a slew of spin-offs, some, like Huckleberry Finn, classics in their own right: others, like Tom Sawyer, Detective, obvious efforts to keep the Clemens' larder well-stocked at a minimum of effort...