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...Marie Forbes, who yearns to do good by performing positive actions; she starts on her career "quite purposefully" killing her swinish husband with a heart attack -resulting presumably from sexual exertion. The author builds her characterization by having her use foul language as often as possible. But as Mark Twain once remarked of his wife's swearing, "she has the words but not the tune...
...This girl's of a different race, of a different world. You've got your friends, your position." C. Aubrey Smith to Leslie Howard in Never the Twain Shall Meet...
...touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe, where she was to graduate cum laude...
...LEGEND OF MARK TWAIN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). David Wayne hosts and narrates this documentary featuring dramatized excerpts from Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
...California, Durrell was staying at the Pacific Palisades home of Novelist Henry Miller, an old friend and compulsive pen pal. Pursuing his investigations of Western culture, he played ping-pong with Miller and visited Disneyland, where he made three trips on the Mark Twain paddlewheeler and took the "Submarine Voyage." It may be that these adventures will find their way into Durrell's next novel: as a man and a writer, he has learned how to enjoy civilization and its discontents. Perhaps this is what Durrell suggested when he had his Felix Charlock declare: "We should tackle reality...