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...have consistently supported McCarthy when he worked at routing Communists and their sympathizers from the bureaus which were reluctant to fire them. But like many superior specialists, McCarthy has been guilty of the sin of pride. In his deliberate challenge to President Eisenhower, McCarthy made a false political assumption. Unquestionably he is convinced that he can take over the leadership of a conservative faction and perhaps make headway with a third party. But McCarthy has shown no talent whatever for party leadership...
...such masking in their ears . . . such giving them pippins to pass the time: such playing at foot-saunt without cards: such tickling, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them home"-that a Puritan preacher, Thomas White, was moved to reason how "The cause of plagues is sin, if you look to it well: and the cause of sin are plays: therefore the cause of plagues are plays...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate choral on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
...York opening of Graham Greene's The Living Room provided some interesting insights into the status of American culture, 1954. [It] gave the New York critics an opportunity to disport their innocence of Christian knowledge or culture. Sin? Suffering? Salvation? What, most of them asked, is all the fuss about? From reviews of The Living Room . . . one gained the impression of a culture not merely secularized but somehow de-intellectualized, a culture stripped of even passing acquaintance with the fundamental concerns which had made it great...
...loves another. And haunting him every moment is the sense that two women now, not just one, hold him to blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals Scobie's fate. He takes Communion, while in mortal sin, in order to hide that mortal sin from his wife. With the despair of the damned, he determines to commit suicide. "God, condemn me!" he cries. "But give rest unto them!" The ironies that ricocheted so savagely through Greene's final pages are all forsaken in the film...