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Citing the confrontation between East and West as one between "spiritual techniques," he attempts in the conclusion to forge a Hindu-Christian unity, a quasi-spiritual transforming essence. He points out that Novalis, for example, sets his Garden of Eden in the Himalayas, and sees within his philosophy an "Orpheus-Christ-Krishna" link...
Other contra groups are not faring so well. The Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE), operating in southern Nicaragua, not only remains estranged from the F.D.N. but is badly split. Eden Pastora Gomez, the swashbuckling ARDE leader who once commanded 2,500 men, has been reduced to door-to-door fund raising in San Jose, Costa Rica's capital. There have been reports of Pastora's followers selling their guns for food. On the Caribbean Coast, an estimated 1,000 Miskito Indian rebels are divided into two rival factions and poorly equipped...
...Caribbean. Not everyone has the time or money to heed the call, but stay-at-homes this year may console themselves with this collection of nine stories. In his first book, Author Bob Shacochis not only offers some beguiling tropical tours, he also shows how living in Eden can be considerably harder than jetting into...
...personal answer: the poet's vision of beauty. As a Black woman, she has learned "to worship/ the sun again./ To affirm the adventures/ of hair." As a poet and feminist, she affirms the value of the self without manufactured beauty: "For we are all/ splendid/ descendants/ of Wilderness,/ Eden:/ needing only/ to see/ each other/ without/ commercials/ to believe./ Copied skillfully/ as Adam./ Original/ as Eve." The last two lines punctuate Walker's message to women...
Actress Jane Seymour has made a career out of portraying sexy, scheming ladies. Seymour, 33, played the femme fatale in both the TV mini-series East of Eden and the small-screen version of The Sun Also Rises. In her new film, Head Office, she is again true to form-this time in the boardroom. "I play a lady executive sleeping her way to the top," Seymour reports. "In many ways she is the most honest of the characters." Still, the star was bothered about her new role. "Would a thinking woman, a feminist do this?" she asked herself, then...