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...Eastward in Eden (by Dorothy Gardner; produced by Nancy Stern) is the third play (the others: Alison's House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...
...Eastward in Eden is mostly concerned with what made her a recluse. According to Playwright Gardner, it was her unrequited love for Charles Wadsworth, a married Philadelphia clergyman. Even as a stage romance, there was very little story. Emily (attractively played by Beatrice Straight) met Wadsworth (Onslow Stevens) when she was 23. In the next few years they corresponded regularly and met briefly at intervals. Then Wadsworth prudently bowed out and went off to a distant pulpit in California...
...women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar...
...husband and nine of her eleven children because the family relief check had been cut from $278 to $126. "Only rats could live on that," she cried. "It won't pay for our gasoline." Last week, after five years in California, the startled Brinks found themselves rolling eastward. California authorities had not only taken Mrs. Brink's dare but had bought four new tires ($125) for their 1931 La Salle sedan and had deposited expense checks ahead at Phoenix, El Paso and Abilene to be quite sure that the Brinks kept going...
...accountant) decided that the earth rotates faster than its oceans and atmosphere. Therefore, the inertia of water and air produce currents that appear to move in the opposite direction. Herz concluded that, since the important (in his opinion) air and ocean currents of the planet do, indeed, move uniformly eastward, the earth must be moving westward...