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Friday, May 5 THE LEGEND OF MARK TWAIN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Host David Wayne perpetuates the legend by dramatizing scenes from Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
...Harvard victory was scored in the Finn Invitational, held twice each year on the Charles to determine single handed superiority in fast, planing-type Boats. The Crimson, perennially strong in this event, had clinched the victory in the ten-team field when four of the five races had been completed...
Heikki Lampela is a strikingly handsome 25-year-old Finn with a magnificent square jaw and a massive smile that takes up his whole face. It branches out from his mouth in squared-off semi-circles, and it seems to light him up. Lampela, like most Moral Re-Armament people, is nearly always smiling. But after the Sing-Out show in Sanders Theatre he was not smiling at all. And he had reasons...
...book, he explains, follows the four-cycle theory of history devised by the Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1774), in which human societies progress through the four stages of theocracy, aristocracy, democracy and ricorso (or recurrence). The title of the book is itself a Joycean wordplay. "Finn (fin or finis) -egan" could mean "end again," suggesting the completion of Vico's cycle, while "Wake" suggests rising from sleep, or beginning life again...
...which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin, and, on another level, to the beginning of mankind's story. And the reader will be wiser when he reaches the end: "Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here Us then. Finn, again...