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Word: bisected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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Though he set his 20 previous novels in widely different locales, Author Graham Greene has always concentrated on a single terrain: the shadow zone where betrayal meets despair. This moral penumbra may fall across an entire country or bisect a drawing room or a double bed. Ordinary people can pass through it ignorantly and unharmed, save for the occasional grotesque accident. The only ones constantly in jeopardy are the marginal men in a skeptical century, those knowingly burdened with a soul that is eligible for damnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Harrowing off Heaven | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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