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There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...
Like any Catholic theologian, Graham Greene thinks of sin as the normal climate of life on earth. But he translates the algebra of theology into the personal terms of stories as human as the tabloids tell-and much more convincing...
Penny Dreadfuls, Plus. He writes about sin and God, about the presence of evil and the absence of good. And he writes about these supposedly abstract, Sunday subjects in shockingly immediate, shockingly weekday terms. His stories, as gripping as a good movie, are penny dreadfuls about moral problems-but they cannot be dismissed as penny dreadfuls...
...people who have made Graham Greene the popular success he is today are, by & large, people who like the movies -people who go for a "good thriller," ordinary people, people who never embarrass themselves or one another by using the word "sin." Greene himself uses the word sometimes, and the fact continually, but he manages to make it as homely and credible-and as interesting-as the neighbors' behavior...
...Battlefield, England Made Me, This Gun for Hire), and getting more popular. But the critics didn't take him seriously. He was too readable; whether he called them "entertainments" or not, his stories were read for sheer pleasure by people who ignored his terrifying glimpses of sin and despair. Even the chilling study of pure evil in Brighton Rock (1938) was written off by one English reviewer as "so much guff." Nevertheless, Brighton Rock was a turning point for Greene. He had discovered that "a Catholic is more capable of evil than anyone...