Word: twains
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Reddi-Wip Fog. Though July is one of the hottest months of the year for most of California, temperatures in San Francisco reach an average high of only 64° and fall to a dank and chilly low of 53°. Mark Twain, who lived in the city in the 1860s, is said to have remarked that "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." The reason is a stratum of fog that blankets the city for part of nearly every day, dropping temperatures as much as 15°. Many San Franciscans dress in layers...
...Koppel denies that the program is meant to be educational. "I assume our viewers are intelligent." Koppel says. "But like Mark Twain said. All people are ignorant about some things.' But to admit that 'Nightline' is an 'educational program' would be to sound its death knell. Television generally does a pretty lousy job with information and--God forbid--education...
Your article on Reagan's trip to China [NATION, May 14] reads more like a section from Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad than a description of what could have been an important meeting between two world powers. Only Reagan can make diplomacy look like a family vacation...
Lines like this do not usually come from the mouths of adolescents. Powell solves the problem of false knowingness with the same narrative trick that Mark Twain and J.D. Salinger used. Simons recalls his adventures of the recent past from new surroundings: the playgrounds of Hilton Head, where alligators are more likely to appear on shirts than in backyards. The secret of his charm is that he is a precocious anomaly looking back on a raffish puberty: "A good gentry tyke in Cooper Boyd [a private school], headed shortly for St. Cecilia Society balls with a million Altalondine Jenkinses instead...
...fluent, but we had little trouble communicating, and we soon agreed to walk about Leningrad together. He appreciates the Soviet educational system because it stresses discipline and hard work (in America, he suggested, it is difficult to learn because no one has to study). His favorite American author: Mark Twain. His biggest political concern: Jewish emigration...