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...perhaps my great-grandsire Rudolph has more of a literary bent. If so, he might take a jaunt across the Channel to London, where a Polish emigre named Joseph Conrad has just published, in successive years, Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. Conrad is coming in at the end of the full flowering of Victorian literature--in the last half-century, Eliot (George, not T.S.), Hardy, Henry James, Zola, Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, Twain, Melville, Trollope, Tennyson and countless others have been busy penning new works. And with the arrival of the 1900s, our well-travelled Rudolph will soon be able...
...could go on, I suppose, into music or political philosophy--but the point should be obvious. The good news, of course, is that like the lucky, imaginary Rudolph, we too can read Conrad (or Nietzsche, to give the Teutons their due), we too can wander the Musee d'Orsay and see the flowering of the Impressionist genius--we too can enjoy the culture of a lost time...
...spring issue of INSTYLE WEDDINGS (on newsstands now) actress COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH writes, "When the minister announced us as 'Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Conrad,' and we turned around and saw so many happy (relieved?) faces, I knew we had done the right thing by getting married...
...Staff writers Parker R. Conrad '02, Justin D. Gest '04 and Garrett M. Graff '03 contributed to the reporting of this story...
...Staff writer Parker R. Conrad can be reached at conrad@fas.harvard.edu...