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...parish council did not protest when Charley's Place on Bow St., a block away from St. Paul's got its liquor license. Murray said Charley's Place offered to make a donation to St. Paul's just before the parish council discussed the case, but that he refused the money...
...cancer; in Manhattan. Critical acclaim first came for her portrayal of an overintellectual college girl in A Raisin in the Sun, and she was consistently excellent as the leading lady in The Owl and the Pussycat, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright and James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charley, for which she received a Tony nomination in 1964. She won an Emmy the same year for the best single performance by an actress in a television series (East Side, West Side...
...holder of one of them is Dr. Eduardo Plarr. Plarr's British father has been held for years in a Paraguayan prison, and Plarr has not only become involved with the kidnapers but is the lover of Charley Fortnum's young wife. When Fortnum winds up a hostage, Plarr finds himself in one of those absurd and passionate plights that Greene is so skillful at convincing us are truthful metaphors for man's lot in life. "Let this comedy end as comedy," Plarr says in mock prayer. "None of us are suited for tragedy." But naturally, this...
Risks of Love. Greene readers, accustomed to the fact that nothing succeeds like failure, will soon realize that Charley Fortnum is one of the author's mysteriously blessed innocents. Plarr, a cool diagnostician and a rational man compulsively armed against the risks of love, just as clearly is Greene's familiar man in Gehenna. Convenient labels, though, do not destroy the extraordinary suspense and subtlety of the book...
Elsewhere Greene has pointed out what Charley Fortnum eventually demonstrates with his life, that the appropriate response to corruption is not cynicism but innocence. Not since The End of the Affair ("Dear God, you know I want your pain, but I don't want it now"), however, has Greene so baldly confronted the problem of God and evil, or the purpose, if any, of the horrors that God seems to visit alike upon those condemned to believe and those condemned to thirst after faith. "Free will was the excuse for everything," says Léon, the priest turned revolutionary...