Word: eden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
After three failures, Tisdale carried the mail over from the ten. Now on the shoulders of the Blue's John Eden rested the best possibility of a tie. He made the first two, but Lamar's Jim Lowell did him one better and made three and that was just enough for the ball game...
...John White, and a crowd of non-starters who play as much and as good football as the first string. HARVARD '51 YALE '51 Bender LER Alexander Kristoplk LTR Clemens Coyne LGR Masters O'Brien C Wooten Rosenau RGL Beggs Sltter RTL Quirk Callahan REL Gant Lowell QB Eden Bottenfield LHR Peters West RHL Tisdale White FB Lohnes
...many in the House of Commons agreed with Churchill's defense of free enterprise. Derisive laughter greeted his speech. Even the Tory front-benchers were uneasy. Deputy Tory Leader Anthony Eden was flushed during Churchill's speech, and did not applaud. The Tories have rested their case mainly on the claim that they could manage controls better than the Laborites. Churchill apparently thought that if Britain was to have a governess, the Tories would hardly find a better one than Cripps would make...