Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate choral on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
Books, movies and the stage sometimes tell as much about the spiritual state of an era as the churches. Broadway's most notable failure this season was Roman Catholic Novelist Graham Greene's play, The Living Room (TIME, Nov. 29), in which an adulterous triangle destroys itself in the helpless presence of a paralyzed priest, against a background of bigoted neurosis. In London the play ran to packed houses for 38 weeks; in Manhattan it lasted just 21 performances. Last week the Roman Catholic weekly, Commonweal, registered a well-taken complaint...
...York opening of Graham Greene's The Living Room provided some interesting insights into the status of American culture, 1954. [It] gave the New York critics an opportunity to disport their innocence of Christian knowledge or culture. Sin? Suffering? Salvation? What, most of them asked, is all the fuss about? From reviews of The Living Room . . . one gained the impression of a culture not merely secularized but somehow de-intellectualized, a culture stripped of even passing acquaintance with the fundamental concerns which had made it great...
...What has religion to do with suffering? What is guilt? What is sin? What is the problem of evil? Graham Greene may or may not have dealt successfully with these questions in The Living Room, but the fact that the majority of New York reviewers could not see that the questions are real is a depressing sign of what our culture has come to. We have been fed such a diet of peace of mind and peace of soul, and been provided with so many guides to confident living, that we apparently can no longer grasp the meaning of spiritual...
...Heart of the Matter (Associated Artists) is a failure that is more distinguished than all but a few of the year's most successful films. Based on Graham Greene's 1948 novel, it is certain to outrage anyone who admired the skill and the love with which the novelist threaded his theology through the mazes of a human heart. In the film, the Roman Catholic hero's suicide, the event that phrases the whole question of salvation in a cruel and beautiful paradox, is averted; and the threads of motive and meaning wind up in a thoroughly...