...Elizabeth Cox Wright Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 The Defining Function of Vocabulary in Conrad s The Rover Elizabeth Cox Wright None of Conrad s novels has been more contradictorily assessed than The Rover. It is his Tempest, on one hand, and the prime example of his powers...

... Whitman Files, records kept by President Eisenhower s personal secretary. As of early 1978, only Peter Lyon s Eisenhower: Portrait of the Hero (Boston, 1974) has drawn from these files. Eisenhower as President 267 sivism, wrote Richard Rovere in 1956, only reflected the dilemma faced by politicians who...

... revealed an important characteristic of postwar liberalism: its tendency to support limited objectives with unlimited rhetoric. What threatened United States national security in Korea, according to Schlesinger, in a book coauthored with fellow-liberal Richard Rovere, was not the possible conquest...

... not to explore at length some of the political aspects of such novels as The Arrow of Gold and The Rover. But these are minor criticisms of a book that stands as a valuable contribution to Conrad criticism. RICE UNIVERSITY W. S. DOWDEN James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts. By Arnold T. Schwab...

... not to explore at length some of the political aspects of such novels as The Arrow of Gold and The Rover. But these are minor criticisms of a book that stands as a valuable contribution to Conrad criticism. RICE UNIVERSITY W. S. DOWDEN James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts. By Arnold T. Schwab...

..., fundamentally they do not themselves change or de­ velop. We leave them as we find them. Harvey Birch of The Spy, Mr. Gray of The Pilot, Captain Heidegger of The Red Rover, Mark Heathcote of The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, the smuggler hero of The Water-Witch, Jacopo Frontoni of The Bravo, the early Natty Bumppo...

... in American values helps to document the degree and effects of the growth of otherdirectedness in this vital area of behavior. Tendencies toward both inner- and other-directedness have probably been part of every man s social experience throughout history.10 As Richard Rovere has written, There is a hermit...

... Carolina history is linked, as the history of no other state is linked, with the age of chivalry, the days when knighthood was in flower the days, too, of explorers and adventurers and sea-rovers, when the world s great age began anew as all Europe went aflame with interest in the new-found world beyond...

..., and these perhaps the quintessential ones for Warren, can only be realized and communi­ cated through forms originating in the imaginative experiences of the poet or novelist. Richard Rovere has identified the specific obligation which attaches to the artist who approaches reality in this way: In Warren s view...

..., including Russian, Hebrew, and Japanese. But by 1946 only four of his novels had been translated into English: Gertrude and 7, Demian, Steppenwolf, and Reath and the Rover. They received enthusiastic reviews from some critics, yet the general public took little notice of the books, which were soon withdrawn...

... Republicans came along for the ride, figuring that only Com­ munists and more important Democrats were endangered; and many jumped out upon realizing that the reckless driver was crash­ ing into the Republican-controlled armory. As Richard Rovere noted in his shrewd 1959 portrait, McCarthy gloated in his own...

... was crash­ ing into the Republican-controlled armory. As Richard Rovere noted in his shrewd 1959 portrait, McCarthy gloated in his own triumph over gentility, brazenly consuming endless bottles of liquor, pawing women at parties, burping in public, calling President Truman an idiot and a son of a bitch...

... into Northumberland, where the fighting was most ferocious. In parts of Durham the hills are still marked with artificial caves, called Daneholes, which sheltered the peasants from the foe. Then Rollo, the rover, attacked the coast. Alfred bought peace with ships and Rollo sailed to France and founded Normandy...

... Jaguar Land Rover and a major share of the European steel industry, and they are active in Africa through Tata Africa Holdings, Tata Automobile, Tata Consultancy Services, and Tata Steel. Other fractions of capital, like Nattukottai Chettairs and Sindhis, specialized in finance, but the former...

... to the wash-basin. So Jenny pumped, and, Surely, said the person of primitive habits, this is one of the pleasantest moments of life. Bor­ row was a true Britisher out of the old rock, whether as sponsor of a prize fight or of the Welsh poet, Ab Gwilyn; whether as gipsy rover, tinker, philologist...

... us in this voyage, they are of the seas, men of war, fires, enemies, pyrates, rovers, thieves, jettesons, letters of mart and counter mart, surprizals, taking at sea, arrests, restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, or people of what nation, condition or quality soever, barratry...

... here Mark Twain found employment as a reporter on a local newspaper for a time and then engaged in an unsuccess­ 252 The South Atlantic Quaeteely ful mining adventure. The rover next found his way to San Francisco where he again secured work as a reporter on a local paper; and in this capacity he...

...) as when someone turns out to be a partisan of some obscure toiler playing for a club like Doncaster Rovers or Plymouth Albion in the bottom rungs of the English soccer league, or some largely stationary and square-jawed lineman in American football whose name eludes even the expert commentators. Fans...

... marriage was seldom a basis for happiness. If it seems less than realistic to depict marriages in which one partner is entirely at fault, the other innocent, at least the motivations of the bored rovers and the wives disguised as mis­ tresses or ghosts or dandies is believable in a society in which a woman...