Word: manichaean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero, instead of taking up the task of building . . . higher and deeper rituals wherein alone personality will be achieved and our cheaper conformities or etiquettes restore themselves to sense." Even in as Roman Catholic a writer as Graham Greene, Critic Lynch finds "a subtle if unconscious demonstration of the Manichaean way"-especially in the novel, The End of the Affair, in which the heroine renounces her lover and dedicates herself to God. Lynch notes that there is no relation between her divine and her human love. "The divine love is in no way achieved in the same...