Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tideland Oil problem started with the discovery of off-shore oil deposits in California at the turn of the century. Not much was done with this discovery until the end of the twenties. Large-scale development of the area began in 1933 with the perfection of directional drilling, which allowed the necessary machinery to be on land. By 1947, California was receiving nearly $4 million in annual royalties from its off-shore oil. The importance of Tideland Oil has greatly increased with the more recent prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Over...
Killed by Duty. People interested in Graham Greene's view of such enormities will find six pieces in the book worth careful reading. One is an early story of childhood called The End of the Party, concerned with a small boy's helpless integrity in face of an overpowering terror. Another, The Basement Room (recently made into a movie called The Fallen Idol), suggests the disastrous effect on a small boy of being made a responsible agent in an adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does...
...possibly with greater safety, is that of disloyalty ... I belong to a group, the Catholic Church, which would present me with grave problems as a writer if I were not saved by my disloyalty ... There are leaders of the Church who regard literature as a means to one end, edification. That end may be of the highest value, of far higher value than literature, but it belongs to a different world ... As a novelist, I must be allowed to write from the point of view of the black square as well as of the white: doubt and even denial must...
...falls in love with Gian she devotes her life to improving him, passionately believing that under his simple-simian surface he has a heart of gold (which is true) and a fine intellect (which is not). She goes about her miscalculated mission with such iron ferocity that toward the end of the book some readers will want to liquidate her. They will not have to worry; Gian's nutty old father does that job admirably by slitting her throat, and Gian is convicted of the murder and hanged...
...When the rubble is cleared away, Meredith decides to stick to his job even though he had been blamed for letting his dangerous patient run loose. What's more, he realizes that his wife is "all he has" and somehow finds his own case cured. Mixed up in the end of the film is the implication that Meredith's own affair blinded him to the condition of his patient which ended in tragedy...