Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affair, by Graham Greene. A shocker about an adulterous love that leads to sainthood - in one of the most controversial endings of the year (TIME...
Again it was the foreign novelists who wrote best and said most. From England came three novels that would be standouts in any year. In The End of the Affair, Graham Greene wrote with explosive irony about an adulterous love affair that leads to sainthood. Some of his critics complained that the Roman Catholic in Greene had grabbed the wheel from the novelist at the end. But Greene's skill had never been surer, and his book was one that his fellow novelists could study with profit. Another English novelist who could be studied but scarcely imitated was Henry...
...Affair, by Graham Greene. A shocker about an adulterous love that leads to sainthood-in one of the most controversial endings of the year (TIME...
...Affair, by Graham Greene. A shocker about an adulterous love that leads to sainthood - in one of the most controversial endings of the year (TIME...
Your cover caption was distasteful. Adultery does not lead to sainthood; adultery leads to "hellhood." Why advertise a wrong implication? It seems to me that the character in Novelist Greene's book [The End of the Affair] achieved sainthood in spite of, rather than because of, adultery...