Word: grahamism
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...wherever and whenever they might prove most virulent: Africa, Mexico, Indochina, Cuba, Haiti, Central America. None of these places killed him; instead they furnished material for many of his more than 50 books, including novels, short story collections, travel writings, plays, essays, autobiography, biography and children's tales. So Graham Greene's death last week, at 86, prompts not only sadness and tributes but also a question: What would the contemporary world look like if he had got his wish and not lived to describe...
...serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene. Millions who have never read him are nonetheless familiar with his vision. Versions of Greene-scenes can be found in daily headlines or wherever entertainment flickers: the dubious quest, undertaken by a flawed agent with divided loyalties against an uncertain enemy; the wrench of fear or of violence that confronts an otherwise ordinary person with a vision of eternal damnation or inexplicable grace...
...winning Harvard boat was comprised of coxswain Andy Cameron, stroke John Roberts, Chip Dixon, Alex Graham, Charlie Braun, John Schoeffel, Ben Humphries, Frank Klausz and bow Guenter Meyer...
Many of the great political writers -- Nadine Gordimer, say, or Graham Greene -- catch revolution on the human scale by showing how the affairs of state impinge on even the most private of individuals. And many a writer of compassion, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller and beyond, has described how one man can be undone by his wish to be kind. Such lofty precedents do not seem out of place when discussing the exceptionally vivid and often heartbreaking first novel of Rohinton Mistry, a 38-year-old Indian living in Canada, whose debut collection of stories, Swimming Lessons, was highly acclaimed...
...GRAHAM PARKER: STRUCK BY LIGHTNING (RCA). Don't get in this man's way: "She's a living example," he sings, "of God's bad taste." And that's a love song; well, sort of. It's typical of the venom-tipped but still lyrical reflections stashed throughout the 15 tunes on this high-velocity workout by one of the orneriest but most beguiling rockers in the neighborhood...