Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The only thing a Graham Greene hero can be sure of is that, morally speaking, he will not get something for nothing. In such superb serious novels as The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter, sin leads the man up to the brink of damnation, but...
In this latest Greene entertainment, the hero gets away with more than usual. He is Mr. Wormold, a middle-aged Englishman who has for years been the Havana representative of Phastkleaners, a vacuum-cleaner company. Just now he is pushing their new Atomic Pile Cleaner, and business is slow. Like...
Within the bare outlines of this sordid story, Author Wright hammers away at the brutality, based on fear and hatred, that the white world visits on the Negro. By this time, even Expatriate Wright should know that his picture is too crudely black and white: he writes as if nothing...
Lady Diana's childhood was clouded by nothing worse than an unfortunate German governess, muscular trouble (treated with galvanism), and a feeling that she was not so pretty as her sisters. Actually, she grew up to be the most celebrated beauty of London society, later impressed the U.S. public...
Clarke's first attempt fails (nothing comes easy to a Shute hero), and he returns exhausted to Pascoe's house in Buxton, broods over Pascoe's mementos, stumbles to Pascoe's bed in Pascoe's pajamas. He dreams and, through a not-too-convincing display...