Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short distance out on the stormy Atlantic hovers romance in plenty; unsolved tragedies, unidentified bodies washed ashore, feminine accomplices and love interest, sudden fierce skirmishes on the high seas, in fact all the sundry trappings of blood-and-thunder yarns. All that lacks is a Stevenson or a Conrad to write the modern romance...
...PREFACE TO LIFE-Edwin Justus Mayer-Boni ($2.50). The candid autobiography of a youth whose physical and spiritual adventures touch upon Harlem and Hollywood, "William Blake and Joseph Conrad, manufacturers, magnates, movie-stars, sweat-shop-workers, policemen, poets, editors, reporters. The growth of a mind, the rise of an intelligence, the development of an interesting and hostile point of view. Well written, fertile of ideas, suggesting one of the many possible answers to the query: " What's wrong with civilization in general and American civilization in particular...
...When Conrad portrays sea characters with his great simplicity of style, they seem real and living, but when he applies this same simplicity to his landmine, he unaccountably loses that genuineness of character which makes his seamen so famous", said Mr. George E. O'Dell at luncheon in the Liberal Club yesterday when speaking on "English Realism: Galsworthy, Bennett, Conrad, and Shaw". He continued...
...George E. O'Dell. English writer and poet, will discuss "English Realism: Galsworthy, Bennett, Conrad, and Wells" after luncheon at the Liberal Club Monday. Mr. O'Dell, who has spent many years in this country and who has practically made it his home since 1911, has been lecturing during recent winter seasons on subjects of literary and intellectual interest: l.e., "Shaw's Women Characters and the Women of Our Own Day" and "The Psychology of Courage". He has long been identified with the women's suffrage movement...
...Joseph Conrad--Far horizons, a vista of the sea, broken roof lines, high hedges...