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...preparation to be got through but a glorious Eden to be prolonged and preserved. Americans do not really want to keep the young in their place; they expect that the young will stay there out of their own essentially good nature. America's alltime young hero is Huck Finn, but not in the role of the brave rebel which serious critics (including T. S. Eliot) have cast him in, but in the safe and comfortable role of a backwoods Penrod or Andy Hardy-the eternally lovable bad boy. Until very recently, the sheltered and privileged American young gladly went...
...still vital after three decades, it cannot be living on gags alone. Something in You Can't Take It With You stirs the get-away-from-it-all urge in the American psyche. Call it the raft complex, that free-floating armistice from all workaday concerns that Huck Finn declared as he drifted down the Mississippi. Whitman distilled that spirit when he wrote: "I loafe and invite my soul...
...years, the Harvard sailors have borrowed the facilities of the M.I.T. Nautical Association. Until 1962, they also used the M.I.T. boats. Since then, the yachtsmen have bought 15 Interclub and six Finn Olympic Monotype dinghies...
...This Fellow. The blunt modern quality of the translation has delighted many Catholics but shocked others, and the correspondence columns of diocesan newspapers have recently been filled with letters about the version. "I haven't met anybody who has liked it," says Msgr. Charles Finn, pastor of Boston's Holy Name Church, and Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno complains that the translation reduces "language to its lowest common denominator of intelligibility." Some critics saw an implied denial of Christ's divinity in the Confraternity phrasing of Matthew 28:6: the two women at Jesus' tomb...
...FEET TALL. Huck Finn mixes with Hemingway when a runaway British lad (Fergus McClelland) and a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) cross paths in brightest Africa...