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...first two pages she uses the word "mystery." With a kind of metaphysical awe she notes that there are 228 muscles in the head of a caterpillar, 6 million leaves on a big elm, 14 billion root hairs on a rye plant. Then she drops her bomb on Eden: Why? "My God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it," she cries. "The question from agnosticism is, Who turned on the lights? The question from faith is, Whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terror and Celebration | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...than 100 of the seminary's 650 prestrike students are expected to drift back. Nearly 400 of the rest signed up last week for a "Concordia Seminary in Exile" that began holding classes at St. Louis University (a Jesuit school) and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both host schools will certify the rebel seminarians' degrees, as will Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology, the largest seminary of a sister denomination, the more liberal Lutheran Church in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: From Luther to Rome | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...blunder their way into a more balanced rapport, pricking each other with their quills in the process. By the end of the play McCleery offers an optimistic perspective on marriage. Egos remain intact, the puncture wounds have closed, and the couple settles down to a blissful future in Eden...

Author: By Brian A. Powers, | Title: Hoping For The Best | 3/1/1974 | See Source »

...other three new officers are Mary S. Mead '75 of Quincy House, secretary in charge of the experimental theatre; Rebecca Goldman '76, recording secretary; and Eden Lee Murray '75 of North House, corresponding secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Radcliffe Women Win Top Spots In Harvard Dramatic Club Elections | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...that Gairy's divine plan does not meet the needs of their down-to-earth little islands. That concern was heightened a few hours before independence, when Maurice Bishop was arrested and clamped in jail. In unconscious imitation of Marie Antoinette, Gairy said: "Grenada is a Garden of Eden. The people must eat bananas and local fruit in place of imported rice and flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRENADA: Let Them Eat Bananas | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

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