Word: edens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Albee that is both a signature and a limitation on his talent. In Tennessee Williams, even the most grotesque character is touched with common humanity. Albee's people are less odd, but more inhuman. To O'Neill, marriage had its serpents, but they were invaders in Eden. To Albee, marriage seems to be a no-exit hell in which the only intimacy is a hopeless common damnation. But a powerful play never founders on its flaws. Albee's language is whiplash strong and leaves welts. His characters are rivetingly modern, and their weird autobiographical outbursts carry...
Sympathy for Selwyn. The party's reservations were voiced out loud last week by former Prime Minister Anthony Eden, now Lord Avon, and Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury, who both protested that sacked Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd was "harshly treated." Added Eden pointedly: "I have no doubt that Mr. Lloyd will serve the nation again in high office." Macmillan's likeliest successor remains Deputy Prime Minister R. A. ("Rab") Butler, who last week solicitously assured victims of Mac's massacre that he had nothing to do with their demise...
Finally, when Eden's illness made his resignation inevitable, it fell to Chief Whip Heath to summon the twelve other party whips to his office at 12 Downing Street and, in effect, pick a new Prime Minister. Recalls one participant in the meeting: "Round and round we went, talking for hours - all except Ted. He listened." After listening almost all night, Heath was able to assure party chieftains that the rank and file would wholeheartedly support one man : Harold Macmillan...
...Philosopher Bertrand Russell is in no mood to waste words. His latest work, History of the World in Epitome, is an eleven-page, bite-sized pamphlet published by London's oddball Gaberbocchus Press. It consists of a page with seven words, a drawing of the Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple...
...screen, Balanchine's dancers moved with an agile, flowing grace. Adam and Eve (Jacques d'Amboise and Jillana) performed an erotic pas de deux that eloquently argued for their eviction from Eden. There was tragedy-Lucifer being consumed by vanity and ambition. There was comedy-Noah and his tipsy wife got in a domestic squabble. And there were the mournful Te Deums of the Columbia Chorus...