Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some crucial groups, such as the Ceylonese and French West Africans, were truly uncommitted. There were satellite representatives ready to engage in reasonable discussion, despite a careful prior selection of delegates which seemed to divide most of the European delegations into three groups--athletes, performers, and party members. And some acted as hatchet men for the Russians, the hard core East Germans for example, who were given control of the seminar programs far in advance, and the more impromptu "goon squad" tasks of removing unfriendly posters...
...proof of Author West's fictional skill and Christian spirit that his ending is psychologically convincing and unconventionally happy because it is holy. His implied moral: few men are chosen to be saints, but many are called to prevail over wickedness with good...
This spiritual investigation-the making of a saint-is the subject of Australian Novelist West's devout and fascinating new novel...
Other Men's Deaths. Author West is a Roman Catholic, but his book is intensely Christian beyond the limits of creed. Like Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac, West is concerned with sin and redemptive grace, but without their somewhat morbid preoccupation with evil. Rarely has the vocation of a priest or the problems of leading a Christian life been explored with such dramatic passion and compassion. One quality is completely absent-what Author West himself calls the "peppermint piety" of the stock religious bestseller...
...Nerone's mistress who bore his bastard son and who nightly kneels before his bloody, bullet-torn shirt. The boy, now a troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might be merely sordid and sensational; he keeps them in the perspective of human frailty and suffering. As Meredith probes on, the proofs of Nerone's possible sainthood mount-his conversion and surrender to God, his healing miracles, his selfless care...