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...then, have there been so few memorable hymns to his arrival? Why has so much American literature, from Huckleberry Finn to Gravity's Rainbow, cauterized America's open society? Because, Warren suggests, great art is rarely hortatory about victories: "What poetry most significantly celebrates is the capacity of man to face the deep, dark inwardness of his nature and his fate...
...Okie from Muskogee would rather die than appear in anything unAmerican. No sweat. Huckleberry Finn contains just the role for Merle Haggard. On March 25, over ABC, he will make his dramatic debut in a TV movie of Mark Twain's classic. He will play Duke, the sweet-talking con man. His country music fans may be disappointed. "I wouldn't want to mix singin' in with the actin'," explains Merle. "That way, if I mess up, I can at least salvage something for my career...
...worked 16 years in the fields described..."; "one worker who showed his income tax returns to a reporter..."; "Giorgio Aglipay ["a farmworker"]...reported..."; "...one farmworker told Dr. Paul Gaston..."; "one grape picker explained..." I have one question: why is the Crimson publishing this sort of crap? Kathleen Finn Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology and Social Relations
Wayne Curtis took the fourth place for Harvard, while teammate Dave Nemazee finished fifth. The Crimson's Brian Finn took seventh position, with Dava Randall and Chris Bickerton closing out the Harvard scoring in tenth and 11th places...
Like the Mississippi, the swindle theme runs deep, wide and muddy through the heart of American literature. Melville navigated the subject on the river boat Fidele, which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...