Word: eden
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Then the director could dissolve to Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel and a suite decorated in Versailles schlock...
...Snake in Eden. Like a film running in reverse, Lynd's version of American history reels backward from the New Left to the Declaration of Independence -"the single most concentrated expression of the revolutionary intellectual tradition." Yet even in the beginning, Lynd observes critically, there was a snake in Eden. "Property, property! That is the difficulty!" cried John Adams upon rereading Rousseau's The Social Contract in the White House. "It was indeed," Lynd echoes. Even the radicals of 1776, he laments, believed that the best way to support individual freedom was by guaranteeing the rights of "property...
Into this w.c. of an Eden slinks Vesta, an unvirginal Eve disguised as a woman's magazine editor. Vesta tempts Enderby into writing non-poems for her journal under the signature of Faith Fortitude, and before he can barricade that bathroom door, she has him out of his holy of holies and into an unholy marriage...
...propositions set the play's anguished tone. One derives from Christianity, and the other from Greek mythology. Both involve modern man's reversal of his traditional beliefs and show how present desolation, ironically, was born in past faith. Expelled from the Garden of Eden, man was bereft; expelling God from the cosmos, modern man is equally bereft. The legendary Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give men life, light, art and wisdom...
Constantine, 27, who fled to Rome after his abortive countercoup last December, spends his days waiting and watching Greece from a two-room business suite at the Eden. He lives with the increasing fear not only that he will not be invited to return to his throne but that Greece's ruling junta might do away with the monarchy altogether. The Greeks are not notoriously pro-monarchy to begin with, and the junta has skillfully kept Constantine in an ambivalent position as to his eventual fate. This situation has caused the King to remain silent and mostly...