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DIED. JO VAN FLEET, 81, actress noted for portrayals of proud, stoical mothers; in New York City. Her many films include Cool Hand Luke and East of Eden, for which she won a supporting-actress Oscar. On Broadway she appeared in The Trip to Bountiful and Look Homeward Angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...overturn biblical traditions. The God of the Old Testament became evil incarnate. For if Satan could tempt Jesus with earthly power and riches, did that not mean that the world was Satan's to give? In time, Jesus would be the spirit of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, giving Adam and Eve a chance to escape from their dastardly creator with a taste of the fruit of the tree of knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET LIVES OF JESUS CHRIST | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...Thursday, the Harvard community was treated to a visit by former Connecticut Governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr. In case you don't remember--and unless you're from New England, perhaps you never knew--Weicker was the governor who took the Eden of Connecticut, one of a handful of states without an income tax, and made it just like any other state out here--Paradise Lost...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: LOWELL'S HOUSE | 9/30/1995 | See Source »

...sect whose members aimed at mystical communion of the individual with God, Pagels set out a scriptural alternative that was shunned from the outset by the institutional church. In 1988 she published Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a study of the influential way St. Augustine read the Garden of Eden story as a symbol of man's fall, though some earlier Christians had seen it as a parable of human freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...believed a handshake on the White House lawn would turn Israel and the occupied territories into Eden. No one expected signatures on a document to satisfy extremists. No one thought a peace agreement would end all fear. But it was hoped that a peace agreement would bring something like peace. It has not, and as a result, Israelis and Palestinians alike are near despair over their famous accord signed in Washington less than two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SICK TO DEATH OF PEACE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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