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...former Foreign Secretary George Brown resigned his portfolio in 1968, complaining about what he thought was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's high-handed one-man rule. Some years earlier, Wilson himself left Clement Attlee's regime in protest against an emphasis on arms over social welfare. Anthony Eden suffered similar Cabinet defections as a result of his Suez policy in 1956, even as, nearly 20 years earlier, he had repudiated Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini by his own resignation. The British have probably best refined the notion of principled resignation−there have been more than...
...Zealand's Janet Frame, history is a hereditary malignancy that engulfs the present and dooms the future to madness, loneliness and death. Intensive Care, her eighth novel, continues her preoccupation with the subject. At one point, she even spells history "hiss-tree," linking it uncomfortably with Eden's serpent. "All dreams," she writes, "lead back to the nightmare garden...
...walk out exclaiming, "It's been done to me!" But what? Did we see the garden of Eden a new? Death anew? Did we see anything? These plays, which are finally mute gestures, appropriately leave it all an Open Question. But at any rate take an hour-and-a-half to see any one of these plays (preferably Serpent ). They are political only by a broad stretch of the imagination, but they do stretch the imagination...
...drugs, and they led a global mind-revolution. (4) It was time for Yoko Ono to pack her bag and meet John (somewhere over Eurasia). (5) They symbolize it all. (6) The Beatles gave us an apple similar to that for which we were thrown out of Eden, and the problem, now, is to decide which one we prefer. (7) It all made Yoko and the Bearles very, very rich, richer than you or I will ever be, so much so that they have been elevated beyond the struggle with pain and "NO" which you and I shall always face...
...goes on to say, "recapitulates a tragic error-the identification of the American dream with present reality. And this, of course, is precisely what the myth of peaceful progress is intended to accomplish. The characterization of America as a peacefully self-transforming system leaves no room for violent protest. Eden is not Eden unless he who rebels is an original sinner...