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...launch was to come on Saturday; on Friday night, we attended a cocktail party. So did Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Walter Schirra, and Pete Conrad. We were impressed...
...YEARS, by Jerry Allen. Everybody knows that Joseph Conrad spent his youth before the mast and his middle years composing some of the finest sea stories in the language. What nobody knew, until Author Allen documented it in this sober but fascinating monograph, is that Conrad's stories are fact-for-fact, act-for-act transcriptions of the hairy adventures of his youth...
...ideas which Coles has developed in these studies are not easily summarized, because he shuns theories and abstract jargon, and presents his findings in concrete, personal cases. His goal in writing is to deal directly with the "worries, fears, and loves of individual people." Like Conrad, Agee, and Orwell, he wants to bring the crushed people to life -- a significant pun, because Coles means it both as a writer and as a doctor: to make them "come alive" for the reader, and to make them live. His approach to psvchiatric chiatric problems ties in with his literary style. He shies...
...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...
...sounds like a bad novel-and it is. But of all his books, The Arrow of Gold was the one that moved Conrad most. To the end of his life, Conrad admitted that he could not read it without "a little shrinking of the heart...