Word: finne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That Connolly excluded Huckleberry Finn and Henry Adams is justifiable: de gustibus non est disputandum. To exclude the major German, Russian and other European writers merely because, it appears, Connolly could not read them in the original is unpardonable. We might as well ignore the Bible because we cannot read it in the original Aramaic and Greek...
With the Navy work to encourage them, more and more civilian dentists seem likely to give their patients a mouthful of one chemical or another as an alternative to the dreaded drill. Dr. Finn Brudevold of Harvard's famed Forsyth Dental Center is concerned that the tin in the stannous fluoride solution commonly used for painting may interfere with the absorption of fluorine, and he is casting around for a better compound. Meanwhile, he says, it helps to cover the teeth, right after painting, with a protective coat of silicone grease. A colleague, Dr. Basil Richardson, believes that...
Twain could be cruelly funny; in one tale a man, caught in a textile machine, gets woven into 39 yards of carpeting. Together with wry homilies ("Temperate temperance is best") Holbrook includes a ghost story, a fragment from Huckleberry Finn, and passages of the purest poetry, such as a description of dawn rising on the Mississippi, a fond remembrance of Twain's youth as a riverboat pilot. It is not youth but age that is the touchstone of Holbrook's marvelously timed acting command of the role. He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts...
Connolly's list will seem perverse and highbrow to many. To a U.S. reader, some exclusions will appear capricious. Huckleberry Finn is omitted because of its "sentimentality," and The Education of Henry Adams is out "because Adams did not write well enough." Nevertheless, the list is an achievement in taste and learning, and it is certain to provoke the unintimidated reader to compile...
That art has its roots in the work of a writer who made his Mark before the century began. "All modern American literature comes from one book by Twain called Huckleberry Finn," wrote Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before...