Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME says Novelist Gary "is the very antithesis of Graham Greene, the guilt-ridden Catholic who keeps pecking away at the problem of personal salvation . . ." Please do not compare Joyce Gary with that genius, Graham Greene. Mr. Greene has set out to "teach" the world. He illustrates the purpose of man and what man is for: namely, the salvation of his soul . . . All Mr. Gary does is to tell us of a particular...
ABOVE the entrance to the specially built 8,000-seat "tabernacle," a banner proclaims: BILLY GRAHAM'S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week...
...Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, the audience waiting to see the world premiere of The Living Room, the first play from the pen of Novelist Graham Greene, was kept waiting for a while. Reason: Author Greene had got stuck in an apartment elevator, and was 20 minutes late getting to the theater. Next day the Dagens Nyheter critic reported: "A dull play but smartly done, almost too smartly done...
Gusto is not a common characteristic of present-day writers. Their most notable common trait is resignation-a resignation that sometimes dresses itself up in a splendid refusal to surrender, a defiant rejection of the unconditional terms that life demands. Hemingway, Faulkner, Graham Greene, J. P. Marquand, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh-they all record, in their various manners, the hopeless valor, the quiet desperation of a rearguard action, a doomed though indomitable next-to-last stand...
...very antithesis of Graham Greene, the guilt-ridden Catholic who keeps pecking away at the problem of personal salvation. Prisoner of Grace (though Gary says it wasn't) might have been written as an answer to Greene's End of the Affair. Personal salvation, Gary would say, is too selfish a business to bother about: his heroine is more concerned with her two dependent men than with her own rescue. Moral law? Justice? As far as human beings should concern themselves, "the world consists entirely of exceptions...