Word: shocker
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...point gets across the inevitable necessity of seeing our Asian effort through peasant eyes, which is the only way we can start to win. The Only War We Seek is not only a smooth, slick job in format but a real shocker in ideas...
...kind of shocker characteristic of Graham Greene-the kind of remark that induces a slight creeping of the flesh (although on this occasion it may be doubted whether the effect was either intended or achieved). Graham Greene deals in shockers...
...head. He is as accomplished a craftsman as they, and without the mannerisms with which the two Americans have begun to burlesque their own styles. He has neither the snigger nor the snobbery that are Waugh's trademarks. But when Greene is compared with Dostoevsky, the great shocker of the 19th Century, all his books together would not match one Brothers Karamazov. That the comparison should even come to mind, however, suggests its inevitability. Graham Greene, like Dostoevsky, is primarily and passionately concerned with Good & Evil. There are not many competitors in that field...
Requiem is notable for lesser things: a structure spliced play-fashion into acts and scenes, a breathless, 49-page, nonstop sentence, one of the longest in world literature,* and a story which reads like a moral sequel to Faulkner's own gamy shocker, Sanctuary...
...Catholic Rome that was a shocker. Critics goggled at Pagliacci's pyrotechnics; the newspapers, wary of violent reader reactions, carried no mention of the opening. But word-of-mouth publicity was enough to make the show a roaring success; within two days collectors had snapped up all 20 pictures on display, including the six church fires, collectively entitled "Roman Caprices...