Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, the position in Europe has so far successfully been maintained. [But] fear and its shadows [still] brood over Western Europe today . . . You have much responsibility there, where much faith is placed in you ... It is certain that Europe would have been communized like Czechoslovakia, and London under bombardment some time ago, but for the deterrent of the atomic bomb in the hands...
...idol who takes a tumble in the story is Baines (Ralph Richardson), an embassy butler in London. Baines is detested by his tight-lipped wife, idolized by the ambassador's young son Felipe (Bobby Henrey), and loved by an embassy typist (Michele Morgan) whom he in turn loves. Out of this emotional tangle, Author Greene has built a clever, suspenseful tale. Borrowing Henry James's trick of using the eyes of children as peepholes into adult passions, Greene centered the story on little Felipe...
...included: Shaw's reprimand of Neighbor Winsten. Writing (to the London Times) of Days With Bernard Shaw, G.B.S. barked: "It is a charming book . . . When I say anything silly or absurd to Mr. Winsten ... he corrects me ... by substituting what he himself would wisely and sensibly have said." However, Shaw admits, "When Turner had to paint a view of a city, and found the church or the castle ... ill situated, he put them in their right places and gave us a landscape worth a thousand photographs...
...London. The scene of Lilith's present depredations is a place called Battle Hill, a rise of ground with a "strategic situation in regard to London." Through history, Battle Hill has witnessed massacres without number-"mornings and evenings of hardly human sport." Now, "from other periods of its time other creatures could crawl out of death, and invisibly contemplate [the living], awaiting the hour when they should either retire to their own mists or more fully invade the place of the living...
...Charles Williams writes, their hour was at hand. The days had a queer brightness. People in their neat suburban houses were having queer dreams. Already one dead man was roaming the streets; he asked the way to London. Everyone sensed it: "Something's about!" Mrs. Sammile knew very well what was about. The path of time on Battle Hill had swerved sharply toward eternity...