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...impressive as the treatment of Lord Jim and Nigger, mostly because it is more one-sided. Guerard sees each of the three short novels as a dramatization of the "night journey," a descent into the unconscious to meet one's dark and criminal double--one's Kurtz or Leggat. Obviously, Conrad did not know enough Jung and Fraser to understand the "dramatization," and the core of the interpretation--and of much of the book--is the assumption that Conrad wrote more than he knew. Guerard explains in a footnote...
Grants for graduate study abroad have been awarded to Robert W. Scrivner '57 of Kirkland House and Topeka, Kan., Stephen A. Aaron '57 of Lowell House and New York City, Eric W. Kurtz '57 of Adams House and Oberlin, Ohio; and Peter N. Stearns '57 of Eliot House and Urbana...
Fulbright Scholarships have been awarded to Kurtz and Stearns, according to Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of Student Placement and chairman of the College Fulbright Committee. Kurtz will study Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, and Stearns plans to study French History at the University of Lyons...
Principal Springfield strength is expected in the special events, particularly in the 400-yard medley relay. In the 200-yard backstroke, Springfield's Kurtz swims a reported 2:15.0, about a second faster than John Hammond's time against Navy last Saturday...
...like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do to reclaim honor lost in one moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph to The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot saluted this defeat: "Mistah Kurtz?he dead," quoted Eliot, recognizing that no man is more hollow than the defeated egotist...