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...baby bison, and one of them was born last week," he says happily, "... and baby geese, baby turkeys, plus I have two bears and there's alligators, and we're raising all kinds of ducks. I'm making a garden of Eden. It's amazing how tame things will get when you're not trying to kill them. Countries should act the same." For the moment, in this private place, Captain Outrageous, also known as the Mouth of the South, has become Peaceable Ted. Naturally, he takes his peace the way he fought his competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Vicarious Is Not the Word | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...Eden Burning, Plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Aug. 2, 1982 | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...Eden Burning, Plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Jul. 19, 1982 | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...author recounts it in this delightful diary, England in the '30s was a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden. The evenings sound with the calls of nightingales, thrushes, plovers and owls; the rivers brim with trout; and the towns are peopled by honest peasants and serene aristocrats. One recalls a nobleman's dispensation of whisky to his neighbor's yeomanry. "Unfortunately, he forgot to provide water .. . 'We had to drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...troubles. It seems the captain marooned him, his family and crew on a forbidding planet 15 years earlier. Now he decides to invade the space platform where Kirk's scientist son and his scientist mother are engaged in good works, creating nothing less than a new Garden of Eden. By capturing Kirk's family, Khan hopes to lure his old enemy into a fatal rescue attempt. This is the kind of situation that makes Kirk feel positively boyish. Lifted out of his psychological lethargy, he manages to can Khan and tie up the loose ends of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beaming Up | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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