Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Handsome, tall, slender, with glistening black eyes and trimmed black beard (a must for Orthodox priests), he has a soft, musical voice, which he uses without oratorical tricks. In interviews with foreign correspondents (which he gives readily) he is quiet-spoken, impassive, with no trace of emotion except, occasionally, a quick, bland smile that, says one correspondent, "crinkles his face like that of a boy who knows where the pot of jam is hidden." When talking, he likes to make a little cage of his hands, fingertips against fingertips...
...QUIET AMERICAN (249 pp.)-Graham Greene-Viking...
...blubbering and blabbering about reform in the Liberation army, while his friends search the woods for monkeys to eat. Whenever a police patrol comes near, the 20 loyal henchmen (and teen-age henchwomen) who still surround him hustle Kimathi into a nearby cave and gag him to keep him quiet...
What gave Ratliff and his friends their bargaining power was the quiet support of marble-faced old (74) Harold L. (Harry) Stuart, head of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. and one of the country's top financiers. It was Stuart who floated $6,000,000 in loans to swing the Enquirer deal and who still holds $1,500,000 in debentures, which are convertible into stock. The stock would give its holders working control of the paper...
...Quiet American, he has translated his journalist's impressions into one of his novelistic moral conundrums. The attempt of the U.S. to find what he calls a "Third Force" between French colonialism and military Communism, is personified in Alden Pyle, member of a U.S. economic mission. He is the "quiet American"-a Harvard man, young, innocent, good, humorless, a Unitarian. He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous...