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Gentlemen & Sluts. East of Eden is a 250,000-word whopper that slowly spreads from the Civil War to World War I. In form it is a two-family saga (with a double Cain & Abel theme) in which the family destinies brush each other so slightly as to make East of Eden two novels between the same set of boards. Adam Trask, the hero of one of the novels, was born in Connecticut in 1862. He did not reach California and meet the Hamiltons (Steinbeck's folks) until 1900, but he already had quite a story...
...brothelkeeper. took over the place, and racked up a lot of money. But she got her comeuppance. Arthritis, and fear that her sins would be found out. broke her evil spirit and she died by her own hand. But not until her shocked, teen-age sons (the second Cain & Abel team) and gentle Adam have found out-a dozen years late-what she has been...
...members. The McCormick plan: Give no support to either Eisenhower ("I Too Ike") or Stevenson ("the nominee of the C.I.O."), but concentrate on voting for such "patriotic candidates" for Congress as Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, Indiana's Senator William Jenner and Washington's Senator Harry Cain...
...Opposition's Weakness. When a party is too long out of power, some of its leaders and spokesmen become irresponsible. The Democrats will paint the Republican Party as the party of Jenner, McCarthy & Cain...
Lackluster Senator Kem is strongly opposed to "foreign entanglements"; Cain is a windbag; and McCarthy is McCarthy. Millions of independent and convertible voters are looking at their television sets in search of Republicanism's face. The national committee chose to present a face that was not the Republican Party as it is, but the Republican Party as the Democrats...