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Word: niggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrated, then, on the three short novels and five longer ones which are most congenial to his critical methods: "The Secret Sharer," "The Shadow Line," "Heart of Darkness," The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. The method involves three great concerns--for prose style, for narrative technique and for the psycho-mythical element. The combination is not as confining as it sounds; a closely argued and integrated discussion of the first five novels cited above on these three bases covers them with commendable through-ness. Indeed, the chapters on Nigger and Lord...

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

...which is a commendable notion, and well carried out. Even when Guerard's interpretations are arguable--as any interpretation of Nigger, at least, must be--he is thorough and persuasive. He is at his best in the discussions of technique...

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

...young men stood in the prisoner's dock in London's Old Bailey and stared up at Mr. Justice Cyril Salmon. Three weeks earlier, armed with iron bars and wooden table legs, crank handles and an air gun, they had piled into a battered car and gone "nigger hunting" in a wild three-hour safari across the Notting Hill district, home of thousands of West Indians. They were, said their lawyer, victims "of the society in which they live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Nigger Hunters | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Marion Almond, chief of the boiler room at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, who says: "As for ingetration [sic'], you can quote me that I am 100% against it. I never let any nigger come close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: The Gravest Crisis | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...number of native children in school has almost doubled since 1953. Verwoerd boasts that South Africa spends $8.61 yearly per capita on native health and education, compared with $1.30 in the Belgian Congo and 3? in India. He was quick to add, however, that he was not a Kaffirboetie ("nigger lover") because he spent money on African welfare. In fact, he declared, he was building much cheaper houses than preceding administrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: God's Man | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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