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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.
#&182; Mynheer von Stoendyck, a Belgian inventor whose perfect command of the English language is simply not credited by his British hostess. She helpfully translates everything that is said to him into broken English.
When exam period is all over, the Key Punch returns to record 262950's grades. These are fed into the Tabulator, a little monster with an electronic memory which chatters out everything from the grade sheets sent home to father to statistics, proudly posted on bulletin boards, about the number...
Confronted for example, with the declaration: "Je suis furleux," they refuse to bother filling out any syntax forms. Instead, Taylor draws a man bearing four mink wraps, and Pearson smoothy translates the sentence as "I am I. J. Fox."
In his hotel headquarters at Bad Nauheim, where he directs a staff of five Americans and 80 Germans, Nebraska-born Charlie Arnot is careful not to compete with his old employer U.P. or other commercial news agencies on spot news. Instead, the staff culls U.S. newspapers, magazines and books, translates...