Word: eden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soul Brother." Outwardly undisturbed by the furor in Washington, Powell continued to disport himself on Bimini (which he calls "Adam's Eden") in the company of the comely Corinne (whom he calls "Huffie"). By now, Powell treats the Bimini natives as if they were his constituents. Whether holding forth at his favorite hangout, Brown's Hotel bar in the tumbledown gingerbread village of Alice Town-where he sips Beck's beer and "cowbells" (Cutty Sark and milk)-or slapping backs on the street, Powell calls the Biminians "my kin" and "soul brother." At week...
...historic events. What he does provide is an eyewitness record of the era, as well as the passing of a time when everybody of consequence in England knew everybody else-and an unbelievably clubbable lot they were. Nicolson casually notes, for example, that he popped in on Anthony Eden at the time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives a vivid picture of the discord it caused among his upper-crust friends...
Nonetheless, some snakes are beginning to appear in Adam's Eden. The Hays subcommittee will make its report before the 90th Congress convenes, and last week one of its members, Republican Representative William Dickinson of Alabama, suggested that the investigating group may recommend criminal prosecution of Powell. California Representative Lionel Van Deerlin has threatened to block Powell from being seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents...
...simple majority vote, be seated only provisionally pending an investigation of his conduct. He seems undisturbed by even that prospect. Under such a sanction, he would continue drawing his $30,000-a-year salary and could, if he managed to escape jail, continue to live in Adam's Eden pretty much as he does...
...Star-Spangled Girl. Eden without Eve is Neil Simon's idea of Paradise. The eternal female drives his characters nuts. In The Odd Couple, a pair of poker-playing middle-agers fled their wives to room together in bachelor bliss. In The Star-Spangled Girl, a pair of post-Ivy League rebels share a dropout of an apartment with penurious satisfaction until a girl who looks like a whipped-cream frappé shows up to curdle their...