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There is a character in Conrad's Nostromo, Martin Decoud, a Europeanized South American, who, amidst a revolution, mistakes his sympathetic, ironic detachment for circumspect veracity...
...Martin Decoud is just as implicated in the comedy for his patronizing sobriety, as for his previous secure elevation. Conrad, like Chekhov, is a master of the comedy of ironic detachment. And this seems to me to be a modern comic technique in this time of self-accusation and self-justification...
...shapely adventure tale is a rare enough creation. Dickey has surely achieved that. Just as surely he has reached for something more, a small classic novel in which action and reflection are matched and a man's return to primitive struggle produces some lasting fragment of interior knowledge. Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Faulkner's The Bear come most easily to mind...
...Died. Conrad Nagel, 72, veteran of Hollywood and Broadway; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After making his debut on Broadway in 1918's Forever After, the handsome blond actor rose to stardom in the silent days, appearing in more than 150 films (Little Women, The Jazz Singer) between 1919 and 1932. His resonant baritone was perfect for talkies, and he continued to star in films while scoring Broadway hits in 1943's The Skin of Our Teeth and 1948's Goodbye, My Fancy...
...into the act and the chase runs from London to Paris to Istanbul, and finally to Paraguay. Greene is not only putting the reader on. He is putting himself on. We are back in The Orient Express (Greene's fourth novel), but an Orient Express without the Conrad Veidt monocles or the concupiscent dancers in the wagonlit. Just the respectable Mr. Pulling, smoking his first stick of pot, gift of an American girl who calls herself Tooley. With a boy friend who paints Brand X soup cans and a father in the CIA, Tooley is the ultimate in flower...