Word: farrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stravinsky, Krenek, Ives and others, performed by organist Herbert Burtis and a chorus conducted by John Ferris, the newly appointed University Choirmaster and Organist. The following week will provide music for organ and brasses; and the series will conclude with works for chorus and orchestra by Bach, Schutz, and Farrant...
Charming Rotter. In a sleazy London bar, Kate Farrant, thirtyish and handsome, waits for her twin brother Anthony, a globe-trotting ne'er-do-well. When he bounces in with "the shallow cheer of an advertisement," she guesses he has lost his job again. To Kate, her charming rotter of a brother is a frightening vision of the failure she might have been, yet she loves him helplessly, as if he were more than a brother. To salvage him, she takes Anthony back with her to Sweden, where she is ensconced as mistress to Erik Krogh, Europe...
Author Greene sometimes wrenches his story to underline his idea: Krogh, for example, becomes a conventional stereotype of the rich man too busy to be happy. But in Anthony Farrant he has created an unforgettable character, a bewildered and pathetic Ishmael who personifies the moral shabbiness to which Greene has repeatedly returned in his later, better books...