Word: macwhirr
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...that Reagan's consistency will turn out like Quixote's, or that he will simply be lucky, like Captain MacWhirr. Every American, particularly those out of work, hopes this is the case. In the meantime, it may be comforting to recognize that the country has a man in the White House who knows where he stands. But it would also be reassuring if he more often recognized that he is standing on a world that moves...
...phrased central thesis pigeon-holing its subject. Conrad, though Polish, "expressed a certain Anglo-Saxon ideal better, perhaps, than any other man of letters." He taught "a stoic philosophy of life, that of the British man of action." This generalization is so incomplete as to be seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical but he scarcely represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal. And from the expostulations of Babalatchi in "An Outcast of the Islands" to the tragic portrait of Charles Could, the typical British man of action, in "Nostromo," Conrad mercilessly exposed that Anglo-Saxon habit of sentimentalizing one's desires...
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