Word: porphyro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which hardly deserves the lead spot in the magazine...
Edward Pols has set out a huge canvas for himself in "Porphyro and the Beadsman," but it reads as clumsily as the title itself. Pols, naturally enough for a Harvard student, lacks the maturity to put in black and white the mental conflict between a priest, grown dubious of his calling, and his former pupil who struggles to save him and "fill him with his own exulting strength...
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