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...ADAM IN EDEN by Grace Metalious. 312 pages. Trident Press...
This demi-paradise, this Eden for the voracious young, throbs with girlish concern for love and money, in that order. But evil, when it is finally faced firmly by Mrs. Spark, comes in the form of lust, not for human flesh but for one of the club's principal assets -a taffeta Schiaparelli dress that is lent around among the sleeker girls for evenings on the town. Does lust for a Schiaparelli justify the burning of Eden? Is Author Spark just pulling the reader's leg? A final scene is not much help. In it, the vicar...
...Chan is an idol in more than the usual sense. To some degree, he is almost a religious figure. He always plays a contemporary youth, romantically flaming, challenging established authority, and winning the girls against brutal odds. In one picture inspired by John Steinbeck's East of Eden, he had the same kind of rebel role played in the American movie by James Dean...
Nothing was said that should be written in marble, but it really was a kind of town meeting. International problems, from food surpluses to Sino-Soviet relations, were talked over in an offhand, idiomatic way. "I want to tell you, Anthony," said Ike to Eden, "that we will be there if you people ever get in trouble. You know that...
...program had its dull stretches of vintage cant, it also had some sharp disagreement, as when Monnet insisted to Eden that Britain should give up control of her nuclear bombs to NATO. Ike jumped in, supporting Eden's no-no position, saying: "It gets to be a matter of principle around here...