Lovingood

Chuck Lovingood, who oversees scholastic chess programs for the non-profit group, said chess teaches students problem-solving, focus and how to

Chess, as a Survival Skill Stephanie Banchero 2010

Chuck Lovingood, who oversees scholastic chess for the non-profit group, said the game teaches critical thinking, problem solving, focus and how to build -- and then execute -- a plan.

Playing for Keeps 2010

The Suggs/Sniffle/Lovingood “voice” transcended its narrow political agenda.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

This was the smooth, grammatical, cool, and subtly disdainful voice of the “teller” within the story: the suave gentleman, no doubt a Southern Whig exactly like the reader, who begins the sketch by engaging in conversation with Suggs or Sniffle or Lovingood, and elicits the rough tale that forms the great middle of the piece.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He was a far more complex character than that, and far more original: a new archetype in American culture, eclipsing such provincial icons as Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, even Sut Lovingood.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The author of the Fifteenth Amendment, in short, found himself sharing quarters with Sut Lovingood.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Snodgrass was a stock-dialect rube off the Simon Suggs/Sut Lovingood template, with maybe a little cornball hick-from-the-sticks shtick that the Grand Ole Opry of seventy years later would recognize.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Here Sam transforms himself with unconscious precision into the sort of lofty, spiritual aspirant he understands Olivia to have been groomed to marry: the perfect Victorian Gentleman undone by his own faux pas; the Frame Narrator purging himself of the Sut Lovingood within.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He was a far more complex character than that, and far more original: a new archetype in American culture, eclipsing such provincial icons as Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, even Sut Lovingood.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

In this story, the dialect speaker is breaking tradition: unlike Simon Suggs, Sut Lovingood, and the rest of that violent prewar cadre, Simon speaks benignly.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005