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...haunts for 150 years. At the moment he is pleasantly taken up with an appealing village "daftie" (Playwright Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate with ghosts. From his angel wife Charlie learns that he can still crash the pearly gates if he reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling...
...Maugham is such a subtle old sinner that it is a pleasure to hear him in the confessional, even if he goes there more to disarm his confessor than for the good of his own soul. The Absolute. His hero, who rambles through the lives of all the other characters, is Larry Darrel, a Chicago boy whose ready-made certainties were buried in World War I. He comes back from war unwilling to go to college, unwilling to settle down and marry wealthy Isabel Bradley-even indifferent to the Parisian fleshpots offered him by Isabel's expatriate Uncle Elliott...
...grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw, et al.). To critical literary contemporaries, Phelps was a sinner who had stopped to look back at the Victorian Age and turned to a pillar of saccharine. Said unruffled Billy Phelps: "The most important emotion to preserve in maturity [is] the enjoyment of enjoyment." His warm enthusiasms and wide friendships helped many a man to do just that...
...Saint & Sinner. In the minds of the mystical Indian people, Gandhi was a symbol of the fight for freedom, of the long struggle to throw off British rule. In the terms of Hindu philosophy, Gandhi was a man of peace who was offering his life to atone for the failings of his followers and, as a result, may be immortalized...
...think of this, thou grey-haired sinner...