Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wodehouse characters, Waugh once said, "have never tasted the forbidden fruit. They are still in Eden." Indeed, a wonderful, innocent foolishness makes them all irresistible: Wallace Chesney, Rodney Spelvin, Blizzard the butler, and the Wrecking Crew (four retired businessmen whose progress over the course resembles "one of those great race migrations of the Middle Ages"). As befits an idyl, the weather is routinely gorgeous ("butterflies loafed languidly, birds panted in the shady recesses of the trees"), and the sun shines gently...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...