Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter from Author Graham Greene, 62, to the London Times began movingly, with an appeal to the Russian Union of Writers to turn over his blocked royalties to the wives of Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, the two writers sentenced in February to five and seven years at hard labor for "maligning" Mother Russia in their work. Then, in dazzling transition, Greene added that his letter "must in no way be regarded as an attack" on the Soviet Union, went on to proclaim that he would rather live in Russia than in the U.S., in Cuba than in Bolivia...
Williamson is particularly enthusiastic about his operatic output, which already includes not only small, occasional pieces such as Prince, but also a fullscale, splashy setting of Novelist Graham Greene's spy fantasy, Our Man in Havana. Finding the proper operatic text is a huge problem. "I need something I can destroy," Williamson says, "a play that I can take apart and rebuild my own way. Verdi got this kind of thing from the trashy plays of his fellow romantics, adapted by saintly and compliant librettists. It's not so easy any more." Probably for this reason, the libretto...
...GRAHAM COLLESS...
...Bright. Then followed two bigger opportunities, Motel with Siobhan McKenna, which folded in Boston, and Face of a Hero, starring Jack Lemmon. Says Jack gallantly: "If Sandy had been playing my role, we'd probably still be running." The show closed after 36 performances, and she switched to Graham Greene's Complaisant Lover, which starred Sir Michael Redgrave. In an ingenue supporting role, she made her splash opening night when the elastic of her half-slip gave way. As the silk was heading for the boards, she glided upstage behind a sofa and deftly stepped...
...boat or hydrofoil on the Volga and Don rivers from Kazan to Volgograd to Rostovon-Don, along the Dnieper from Kiev to Kherson, up the Neva from Leningrad to Petrodvorets. For the most part, tourists report that the equipment is modern and the service excellent. Says Pomona, Calif., Attorney Graham Talbott, who took his wife on a six-day cruise down the Danube from Vienna to Yalta: "The only annoying aspect was a Big Brother speaker over your bed that never quit issuing orders from the time it woke you up at 7 a.m. There wasn't a switch...