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CONGO DIARY AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED PIECES by Joseph Conrad Edited by Zdzislaw Najder; Doubleday; 192 pages...
...Joseph Conrad was asked by a London weekly to list the books he read as a boy. "I don't remember any child's book; I don't think I ever read any," the Polish-born author replied. "The first book I remember distinctly is Hugo's Travailleurs de la Mer [Toilers of the Sea], which I read at the age of seven...
...only to wind up leasing the property back from the new, absentee owners and working for them as tenant farmers. When farm children grow up, they must sometimes seek other occupations, because land prices are so high that they cannot afford the life their parents led. Complains Vernon Conrad, vice president of California's Fresno County farm bureau: "Buying by outsiders is taking away the family-based farming communities that have helped make this country what it is." Laws preventing or limiting foreign ownership of land have been enacted in Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa, and the Illinois legislature this...
...fondness for categories makes him a man of numbers instead of letters: he finds five preconditions for a literary generation, four stages in the composition of a story. But he never abandons his book's true aim: the reclamation of three underrated authors and friends: Robert M. Coates, Conrad Aiken and Erskine Caldwell. Of the trio, Coates is the least read and the most appealing. Parisians of the '20s remembered the tall redhead bicycling through the streets: "He looked like a flag," one of them said. Coates was The New Yorker's art critic and the author...
...Conrad Wright '37, professor of American Church History, and secretary of the Divinity faculty, says there is "no question" that the faculty will tighten up its requirements for the Master of Divinity program, adding that he is not sure of the direction that the tightening up will take. Wright says that the area of quantitative skills in the Masters program hasn't really been discussed yet by the faculty, and adds that the area is something that Stendahl is especially interested...