Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes they learned the complete grammar of the international language from Graham E. Fuller '59. Within 45 minutes the linguists were all back out in the cold Cambridge air, prepared to chirp, "Cu vi parolas esperante?" to shivering policemen...
...Quiet American (Figaro; United Artists). "Innocence," wrote Graham Greene in the novel from which this film is somewhat speciously taken, "is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm." The leper of modern history, as Greene sees him, is the American-he of the "young and unused face" who has made "a profession of friendship, as though it were law or medicine," and who goes about the world infecting whole continents with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another...
...history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests in all the best literary teapots. "Bravo!" cried Graham Greene. "A delight," said Bertrand Russell (who was once more or less described by Poet Eliot as an "irresponsible foetus...
Born. To the Rev. Billy Graham and Ruth Bell Graham of Montreal, N.C. a son, their second, and fifth child; in Asheville, N.C. Name: Nelson Edman...
...trouble with you atheists--as well as Graham," he resumed, classifying me without warrant, --"is you take the Creed and the Bible and so forth literally, as if all they meant was just what they said. Like the resurrection, I mean. I suppose you think that means somebody actually, physically, rose up from being dead...