Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buffoons (King Solomon's Mines, The Princess and the Pirate). In his U.S. debut as a cinematic Jack-of-all-trades, he uses a small cast of faces even less familiar than his own, and a setting consisting mainly of a railroad lineman's shack along the desert route of the Southern Pacific. But he provides what too many pictures lack: an intriguing idea well suited to movie treatment, and the skill needed to bring...
...DESERT OF LOVE...
...them the characters win their way to painful knowledge of themselves, gain glimmerings of the love of God. In most, Mauriac writes with surgical brilliance. But only one (Vipers' Tangle-TIME, Nov. 3, 1947) rates with the best work of his unregenerate days: Therese (1927) and The Desert of Love...
Pained, Mauriac wrote an essay in self-defense. "Christianity," he complained, "makes no allowance for the flesh; it abolishes it." The Desert of Love, written in 1925 and one of eight of his novels (total: 15) published in the U.S., reflects the disturbed Mauriac of those days...
...Pleasure of Disgust. The Desert of Love was one of the last of François Mauriac's "unregenerate" novels. A year after his cry that "Christianity makes no allowance for the flesh," he underwent deep conversion. He approvingly quoted Pascal: "What pleasure is greater than being disgusted with pleasure...