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...idol, Earl ("Fatha") Hines. Cole became a strong force in jazz, influenced the styles of such greats as Bill Evans, Ray Charles, Oscar Peterson. The event that helped turn him permanently into a singer was the unlikely appearance in 1948 of a bearded, barefoot hermit-songwriter named Eden Ahbez, who smuggled one of his songs to Cole through his valet. It was called Nature Boy, and Cole's haunting version of it became a runaway bestseller. He soon broke up his trio to charges of "artistic sellout" by the jazz critics. "Critics," countered Cole, "don't buy records...
...part that she has enough love for the three of them. The infant is not seen but heard, and the squally Eine kleine Nachtmusik rasps on Peter's and Pat's sleep-starved nerves with the first intimation that they are somewhere east of Eden...
...Sunday services. Instead of a sermon, St. Clement's may feature a scene from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In addition to readings from the Epistles and Gospels, the service has a "contemporary epistle"; last Sunday it was a passage from John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Actors are not the only ones who find a sense of community at St. Clement's; the congregation of 125 also has doctors, lawyers, writers, and a sprinkling of neighborhood slum dwellers...
Designed to Want. Man is adrift on a raft in a boundless ocean, writes Fowles. "From his present dissatisfaction, he reasons that there was some catastrophic wreck in the past, before which he was happy; some golden age, some Garden of Eden. He also reasons that somewhere ahead lies a promised land. Meanwhile, he is miserably en passage." But if man were to find his Utopia, writes Fowles, he would be much more miserable. For man is made to struggle and yearn: "We are designed to want: with nothing to want, we are like windmills in a world without wind...
...praise be to Paddy, bitter before it turns sweet. The cowardly hero (James Garner) is a fat cat who finds that military life in London in the days before D-day is just his bowl of cream. While millions of Britons quenu up for rations, the hero inhabits an Eden teeming with rivers of bourbon,sierras of sirloin and herds of gorgous girls who will do almost anything for a Hershey bar. Happily, there is a serpent in this paradise: an admiral (Melvyn Douglas) more concerned about congressional hearings ("They're tryin' to scrap the Navy!") than...