Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like any Catholic theologian, Graham Greene thinks of sin as the normal climate of life on earth. But he translates the algebra of theology into the personal terms of stories as human as the tabloids tell-and much more convincing...
...those London cocktail parties where everybody showed up with a hangover. The host, a distinguished novelist named Graham Greene,* roamed restlessly about his book-cluttered flat, listening to the mock-tragic tales of woe. Not to be outdone, the host confessed that he too was feeling like hell: he had been up all night drinking with his priest...
...kind of shocker characteristic of Graham Greene-the kind of remark that induces a slight creeping of the flesh (although on this occasion it may be doubted whether the effect was either intended or achieved). Graham Greene deals in shockers...
...people who have made Graham Greene the popular success he is today are, by & large, people who like the movies -people who go for a "good thriller," ordinary people, people who never embarrass themselves or one another by using the word "sin." Greene himself uses the word sometimes, and the fact continually, but he manages to make it as homely and credible-and as interesting-as the neighbors' behavior...
...written about sinners, who are last seen heading in various directions (to heaven, hell, or purgatory). It was in the cards that sooner or later he would try his hand at a story about a good person-a saint. In his latest novel, published this week in the U.S., Graham Greene shows his hand...