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...heart's content : he plays a man who thinks he can do without a woman. Do what? Do business, for one thing, and as the manager of a Nevada casino, he has plenty of business to do. One day, temptation (Suzanne Pleshette) comes slithering into his Eveless Eden. He resists. But after temptation comes responsibility (Claire Wilcox). He can't resist. How could any redblooded, blue-eyed, squarejawed, caramel-centered American male resist a darling little five-year-old girl abandoned by her heartless father in the lobby of a gambling casino; abandoned without a Mr. Goodbar...
Gaitskell's final lecture called for United States co-operation in reaching a Suez settlement. The resignation of Prime Minister Anthony Eden interrupted Gaitskell's lecture series, but Gaitskell decided to remain in Cambridge and finish the speaking engagement
...your completely unjustifiable tirade against Novelist John Steinbeck you fail to mention his major work East of Eden, which, alone, justifies his choice as recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...actually believe that all those things about objective correlatives, classicism applied to his poetry? Surely you must have seen he was one of the most subjective and demonic poets who ever lived? Take The Waste Land, which Eliot would have written about the Garden of Eden but which your age thought its own realistic photograph. After the first few years, his poetry existed undersea, thousands of feet below that deluge of exegesis, explication, source-writing, scholarship and criticism that overwhelmed it. And yet how bravely and personally it survived . . . plainly human, full of human anguish...
...action begins just before Christmas. In material terms, Caesario and Pamela lose everything. In spiritual terms, they die out to the world. Meaning crumbles with their marriages. Thrown into what existentialists call a "situation of extremity" and Christians call "peril of soul," they strive in the "Garden of Eden" for the conditions of Paradise, where Adam and Eve possessed nothing and enjoyed everything...