Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson hockey players will participate in the first annual R.P.I. Invitational Hockey Tournament in Troy, N.Y., on December 27-29, acting R.P.I. athletic director Paul S. Graham announced today...
...Graham Greene...
...Pity Is the Worst." The first novel about Graham Greene might end there. Then he turned into a writer. In 1926, full of his Nottingham knowledge of journalism, he got a job as subeditor in the letters department of the London Times. On the side, he wrote two bad novels, which publishers encouragingly rejected. In 1929, Heinemann accepted The Man Within. It was reviewed by St. John Ervine as a "remarkable first novel" by a writer who "obliges us to believe in his people, even when his people seem determined we shall not believe in them...
...Dostoevsky? How much fuss will posterity make about Graham Greene? Will it rate him as high as Hemingway or Faulkner? Will he outlast Evelyn Waugh? Will he be mentioned in the same breath as Dostoevsky? Only posterity can answer. But with these three contemporaries, at any rate, Greene can hold up his head. He is as accomplished a craftsman as they, and without the mannerisms with which the two Americans have begun to burlesque their own styles. He has neither the snigger nor the snobbery that are Waugh's trademarks. But when Greene is compared with Dostoevsky, the great...
...confused with other literary Greens: British Novelists Henry Green and F. L. Green. *No kin to Author Elizabeth Bowen, good friend and brilliant colleague of Graham Greene's. Marjorie Bowen's real name: Margaret Gabrielle Long. * The volume is now a rare collector's item, and Graham Greene wishes it were even rarer. Sample: . . . Your eyes can bring me no such lovely joy As sudden sparks of beauty in a verse . . . And yet, your hair dusks with its strands the page, Until I'd leave the book to kiss your hair. Yet even...