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Britain's most aristocratic kingmaker is Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 67, fifth Marquess of Salisbury. Lean, bony-faced, speaking with a slight Edwardian lisp, Salisbury has roamed the inner chambers of power for three decades. At his urging, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest against Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini and Hitler. Salisbury was a strong proponent of Eden's ill-fated intervention in Suez. In 1957 Salisbury resigned from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government because he thought that Britain had gotten "too soft" in dealing with the rebellion in Cyprus...
Film revivals are all too often a shattering experience. For six years I have reverently remembered East of Eden as the first of the three James Dean greats; after a second viewing at the Brattle yesterday, Dean (fortunately) seems as convincing as before, but the film itself is little more than hackneyed and unconvincing Hollywoodism...
Starts Sunday: A JAMES D Festival, in two parts. Thr Tuesday: EAST OF EDEN; Wednesday through Saturday: RE WITHOUT A CAUSE. Both skillful, exciting, easy to remend. Evenings...
...Gospel, said Bishop Pike, is largely communicated by means of myth-not in the sense of an untrue fable ("A good myth is true"), but in the sense of a form used to express complicated and difficult truth, such as the Garden of Eden. Writes Pike: "I do not know a single member of the Anglican Communion-Bishop, presbyter, deacon or layman-who believes this story literally...
...Extensive Pen, Lockley put a single buck and two does. With a whole acre of grass and a buck to share between them, the does responded reproductively as rabbits are expected to do. Between December and the following July, they produced 36 young. But even this two-Eve Eden was not happy. "The isolated buck in the Extensive Pen," says Lockley, "although enjoying two wives without competition, nevertheless spent most of his time patrolling the fence between the two pens, endeavoring to break into the Intensive Pen, where he could see other males and females. These males and females...