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Word: grahame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the usual carnage, only one play died a hero's death: Graham Greene's short-lived The Living Room, which, though it ultimately failed, at its best had real distinction. Blatantly among the missing were the theater's classics: on Broadway proper, there was not a single revival of an important drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Final Score | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate chorale 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Britons' hunger for religion, but their hunger for a show. "There is a vacuum that must be filled. Politics, to exist for them at all, must be a show. Patriotism is a show with an expensive regal cast . . . And now, with the arrival of the streamlined Billy Graham organization . . . religion is a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Innocent British | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...listener he did not take by storm was Novelist-Playwright J. B. Priestley, who analyzed his first experience of Evangelist Graham (on TV) for the New Statesman & Nation, a journal that distrusts Heaven almost as much as it does the United States of America. Socialist-minded Observer Priestley, who in his stories has shown himself fascinated with the supernatural, found Billy just another example of the made-in-U.S.A. world that Britons are forced to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Innocent British | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate chorale 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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