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...question has lingered: Was there collusion among Britain, France and Israel? At the height of the crisis, Selwyn Lloyd, then British foreign secretary, denied any "prior agreement." Two months later, Prime Minister Anthony Eden denied any "dishonorable conspiracy," even claimed that Britain was unaware that Israel was planning an attack. Washington suspected otherwise, and so did just about everyone else, including British Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. "We must wait," Gaitskell counseled. "If there was collusion, the motives of the men who practiced it were so various that they are bound to start giving one another away...
When someone asks Norman O. Brown to summarize his theories, he points to a colored print of Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which hangs in his office. The first panel is an idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...
...mood of his plays is traumatic loss, a vestigial memory of the expulsion from Eden. With elegiac melancholy, Beckett intones a Kyrie eleison without God. Godot is hope's requiem. The two tramps are waiting for Godot in vain. In Endgame, the lid is lifted on a character who is dying in an ashcan, and it is disclosed that "he's crying." "Then he's living," says another. The only sort of affirmation lies in Beckett's very act of communicating the darkness of his vision. As Eric Bentley puts it: "If one truly had lost...
...political events superseded military victory. The same international pressures that ultimately led to the fall of Anthony Eden's government forced the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Nevertheless, Dayan and his fellow Israelis believe that the Sinai escapade convinced Nasser of the "readiness of Israel to take to the sword to secure her rights, and the capacity of her army to defeat" a numerically superior and better armed enemy...
...levels of society, privacy has become a lost Eden, pursued only by a few stubborn eccentrics. Everyone praises privacy, of course, but few really practice it. More and more people operate in the spirit of the jet-set character who gives each new wife a press agent for a wedding present. But then, how can privacy be prized when the President of the U.S. bares his surgical scar on television for all the world...