Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemists, reporters, shopkeepers. He saw a Communist demonstration and, while bombs drooped outside, listened to a debate in the House of Commons. He had a long talk with men working on the London sewers, an all evening session that lasted until two in the morning with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Major Clement Attlee...
They are Mrs. Catherine Standish, her son Elyot and her daughter Eden. Elyot, as the blurb says, "represents death," Eden "struggles up to life," the mother "wavers between the two." They are presented, in their mutual oppositions, with considerable psychological skill. It all converges, in the long run, on sex for each. Elyot, a scholar, a "raker of dust, a rattler of bones," winds up in bed with an art-gallery Jewess as hard & cold as chromium. Eden, a sultry semi-Marxist, follows an abortion with a hot, sterile series of affairs, finds what she needs in a calm carpenter...
...working-class characters in The Living and the Dead are done as if from a Junior Leaguer's notebook. But the sterilities of Elyot, the smolderings of Eden, above all the nervous, bogus charm and climacteric rut of the mother, are very real indeed; and scene after scene is worked out with exactness and subtlety which no second-string novelist can scent, far less nail to paper...
...went energetic Mr. Willkie for a quick tour of the devastated district around St. Paul's, a call on Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, lunch at No. 10 Downing Street with Winston Churchill. Two hours later he emerged. "I knew he was a great man," said Mr. Willkie. "I know it now even more." Although the British press had been-as far as was deemed politic-all for Roosevelt's reelection, a shaken London paper murmured: "Willkie is the most interesting personality with the exception of Mr. Roosevelt who has appeared in American public life since the other Roosevelt...
...dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great as they dine -Morrison, Beaverbrook, Duff Cooper and Eden among them...