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Twain Still Explodes Petrified Opinion.(Mark Twain on American politics)(Brief Article)

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From: Insight on the News
Date: 20010625
Author:De Toledano, Ralph

Mark Twain is in the liberal doghouse again because in his great book Huckleberry Finn some of the characters use the N-word. Well, what's new? Most have forgotten that the Anti-Defamation League years ago mounted a campaign to have Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice thrown out of the New York City school curriculum as anti-Semitic. If this sounds crazy, bear in mind that even now we are observing Democrats in the Senate arguing that those who hold strong religious views -- wild radicals such as the prayerful John Ashcroft -- are, ipso ...

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