Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion of their first visit to America, "Billy Graham said he'd broken his strict rule and watched television on the Sabbath just to see them. 'They're a passing phase,' he said. 'All are symptoms of the uncertaintly of the times and the confusion about us.' "Oddly prophetic on Graham's part, for the rock and roll army was just about to be born, and the Beatles (touring phase) were to be the midwives. A generation of kids was about to be turned on to their own youth, their beauty and their energy. And they were going to notice...
Wiggins stated, "Grapes are not on the menu and will not be on the menu in the foreseeable future." It is unusual for Wiggins to involve himself in food planning; this is generally the province of C. Graham Hurlburt, director of the Food Services Department...
...cannot take sides on this issue," said Charles Graham Hurlburt, director of the Food Services Department. "If we keep taking sides on one issue or another, we'll end up with nothing on the table...
Emulating such meticulous metaphysicians of suspense as Graham Greene and John Le Carré, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes tried to turn a routine story about the last personal and professional adventures of a gentleman robber into an existential parable. Sadly, the material is too airy to bear the weight of Forbes' meaningful silences and rambunctious camerawork. The arch dialogue is genuine tin (exhausted heroine to Caine: "Have you done it very often in strange rooms with girls who have husbands?"). In the best anti-hero tradition, Caine dies by bungling his last job, losing the girl and getting shot...
What does it all add up to? Even were Graham alive, he would most probably not tell. He delighted in shrouding his life and art in mystery. Nor is the rediscovery of John Graham based on any reassessment of his artistic ability. He remains, at best, only a fair draftsman and a thoroughly pedestrian stylist. Nonetheless, his wild-eyed subjects possess considerable appeal for the public that has recently developed an interest in astrology, numerology and other forms of mysticism. Graham, who thought of himself as an eccentric loner, often said that his work was not intended to be beautiful...