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...Joseph Conrad Thomas Wolfe was an undisciplined, ungovernable American Conrad whose sea was the land of his birth. His words, seeking "to find language again in its primitive sinews," rioted onto paper in millions, growing out of him, over him, and sometimes beyond him. In the West a few years before he died, he saw a sequoia for the first time. He stared upward for a moment in unbelieving silence, then ran to the big tree, his long arms stretched wide. It was a boyish gesture, but this man of 35 still believed that he might draw into his embrace...
Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Rerun of Calculated Risk, starring John Cassavetes and E. G. Marshall. A pair of federal tax agents find their investigation of a business firm complicated by its devious president (Conrad Nagel), a chief executive (Warner Anderson) and his pretty daughter (Mona Freeman...
...protested Castro's "slander'-specifically a propaganda pamphlet charging the U.S. with blowing up a munitions ship in Havana harbor last March. At week's end Castro seized the Hotel National (managed by a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways, Inc.) and the Havana Hilton, which Conrad Hilton operated for its owner, a Cuban labor union. (The rebels told Nacional Manager William Land he would have to start paying for his room.) The hotels have been losing $100,000 a month since U.S. tourists began staying away. Castro accused the American management of not doing enough...
...Conrad's success is in no small part due to his own carefully considered ideas about his techniques-and the limitations of his craft. Says he: "You should always determine first what you want to say. It's a bad situation for a cartoonist to think of his pictures first." He also says: "A cartoonist should get out of bed mad and stay mad. The cartoonist's function is essentially a negative one, and the cartoon that advocates something usually says nothing...
Kenneth Cooke, now a Yorkshire gamekeeper, ends his preface with a line that might have been written by Conrad: "And there is no one left now to tell me I have remembered badly." It is the musing of a man who sat helpless while sharks ate the bodies of twelve raftmates, and who calculated the dwindling strength of those left alive, as they openly calculated his, in the hope of gaining extra rations. After 17 years, the inexplicable and awesome fact of his survival still obsesses Cooke. No one who reads his book will need...