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...Philosopher Bertrand Russell is in no mood to waste words. His latest work, History of the World in Epitome, is an eleven-page, bite-sized pamphlet published by London's oddball Gaberbocchus Press. It consists of a page with seven words, a drawing of the Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple...
...this is Clement's movie, and it is his achievement that his two movies maintain unity. In some of the most exciting moments, for example, he weaves a rich musical score around his protagonist as a constant reminder of Eden...
Rene Clement's Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) is the highly successful marriage of at least two movies. By turns a mystery thriller and a beautiful portrait of the Mediterranean, it emerges as a poignant statement of human corruption in a modern Eden...
Movie number two is Clements Portrait of Eden. His cameras follow Phillipe's sloop Marge along the lush Italian coast from Rome to Sicily. From the Mediterranean setting he creates not so much a background as a circumscribed universe which encloses the action in a glass bell of almost suffocating beauty...
Susan Dowling, in both the Garden of Eden ballet and the apache number, gives the Winthrop audience a display of some of the finest dancing ever seen on a House stage. Terrence Currier is convincing as Judge Aristide Forestier, and he possesses a fine tenor voice...