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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaks at one point of the "dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught us not to confuse the two of them. These efforts at psycho-mythical interpretation often contain real insights...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: CONRAD THE NOVELIST, by Albert J. Guerard. Harvard University Press, 315 pp. $5.50 | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...heartening to know that the movie world can still adapt a play without abandoning its more serious and "difficult" aspects. Me and the Colonel is a very fine example...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Me and the Colonel | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

None of the Band's music was insured. Officials said that the possibility of insurance was explored last spring, but was abandoned since valuation was too difficult. Replacement of the hundreds of thousands of lost sheets of music will be a "long and expensive process," according to George L. Kirklin '59, manager of the Band. Almost all of the irreplaceable scores were recovered from a metal filing cabinet, he reported...

Author: By Mark J. Eisner, | Title: Fire Marshal Starts Investigation of Blaze | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

Numerous examples could be used to show that both assumptions are indeed correct. Nevertheless, their theoretical implications are mutually exclusive. To reconcile them is a difficult as the squaring of the circle; however, this is exactly what the new constitution tries...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: General DeGaulle's Attempt At Squaring the Circle | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...contain the former can probably be by-passed. Comparable devices introduced by the Constitution of 1946 have proved useless. To be sure, they were much less daring, but they had appeared very impressive in 1946. Unruly parties find all too easily ways of overthrowing cabinets without resorting to the difficult procedure of motions of no confidence...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: General DeGaulle's Attempt At Squaring the Circle | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

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