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...itching land-greed seemed to come over them. They wanted more and more land?good land if possible, but land anyway . . . The early settlers took up land they didn't need and couldn't use; they took up worthless land just to own it. ?John Steinbeck, East of Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land Sale of The Century | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

This richly documented chronicle of Churchill's first four decades by the versatile biographer and journalist (Maugham; Rowing Toward Eden) catches Churchill on all fours. Here, the world statesman is still a vote-grabbing politician, and the supreme war strategist a romantic blunderer. The omnipresent cigar, the V sign and the stentorian voice on the wireless are a World War away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glowworm | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...Eden Burning, Plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Aug. 16, 1982 | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...Eden Burning, Plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Aug. 9, 1982 | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...minor characters were as memorable as the major ones. Beaver's sidekick Larry Mondello looked and acted like a pint-size W.C. Fields. Wally's chum Lumpy Rutherford was just that. And of course there was the incomparable Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond). If Mayfield was Eden, Eddie was the serpent slyly tempting Beaver to bite the apple of mischief. A leering skull dressed in a cardigan sweater, Eddie was smarmy to his elders and sneering to his peers. "Hey, Wally, if your gunky brother comes with us, I'm gonna Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver, I was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: When Eden Was in Suburbia | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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