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Joseph Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus tells of such a tempest as stirred the demons of the Pacific into an oceanic Walpurgisnacht off Central America last week. Two ships reached harbor safely at Balboa, Canal Zone. The freighter William A. McKenney lost a third mate, steward, carpenter, boatswain, six seamen, two cooks, the first and chief assistant engineers who were battening down tarpaulins and were caught in the abrupt rush of an enormous wave. Only seven of the crew survived. Also reminiscent of Conrad was the cat of the liner American Star, which reappeared, wan, mewing, after...
...futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that." But the company cook, who had been chef to the king of Greece, thought the death of Narcissus on the rocks of Arcady pleasanter than a bloody grave in the confusion of attack...
...date of the Norman invasion or the French irregular verbs fixed in his mind when a bare-kneed cutie, all scented up with Black Narcissus, is sitting just across the aisle? No one without the sales resistance of a Galahad...
...will give a varied program of classical and popular numbers at the Harvard Club of Boston, Sunday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The numbers to be presented are: "Triumph March" Beethoven "Egmont Overture" Beethoven "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn "March from 'Aida'" Verdi "Woodland Sketches" MacDowell "Rustle of Spring" Sinding "Narcissus" Nevin...
...rest fairly well conjectured, no one dares deny the almost divine whimsicality which now sends men voyaging through the fogs of the Atlantic in tiny planes like the Spirit of St. Louis. Were Conrad still living he would see in this what he saw in the passsage of the Narcissus. It smacks of the hardboiled days of the Spanish Main; it has no touch of the mauve decade. And thus, if for no other reason, is it worth while...