Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note books are in pencil and give a brief and fragmentary account of this trip which resulted in his writing the "Heart of Darkness". The journey up the African river is a significant incident in the life of the great Polish novelist in other respects also. As the story goes, Conrad as a small boy pointed to the dark area on a map of Africa and said, "Some day I will go there." At the time he made the trip, Conrad was still a sailing captain, and had yet to write his first novel. The journey so weakened his health...
...meeting of the Harvard Canadian Club, which will be held in Conant Common Room at 8 o'clock this evening, Mr. Johannes Van der Biji will speak on "South African Problems...
...ritual: "The champion church of the South [for the number of baptisms] ducked 400 [the past five years] . . . So many darkies have become Baptists of late that the other evangelical denominations are growing alarmed. The Baptists' dogmas and ceremonies appeal powerfully to the African mind, as they do to the mind of the low-caste white...
...long, lean, brown-skinned form soaring high in the air, a good 12 in. over a bar which the photographer swore, upon his honor as a missionary, had been set at 6 ft. 6 in. The jumper was a Watusi or member of the highest caste in the African kingdom of Ruanda, a caste in which all the members are between six and seven feet tall. Had the Watusi shown been competing in a recognized track meet, he would have smashed by many an inch the present "world's record" of 6 ft. 8 5/16 in. (held by Harold...
Return. The story is simple enough. In the late '50's a plain and hearty British sailor returns to England with his wife-the daughter of an African king-and their baby. They establish themselves in a village pub. The sailor tends bar; the alien princess is his cheerful helpmate. The village reaction results in tragedy. The baby is consigned, through friendly sailor hands, to Africa, perhaps to become a prince again-his mother never knows. The new proprietors of the pub permit her to become the drudge-of-all-work in her old home. Just that...