Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into operation. To some people, public participation means stopping the program. The fact is that we are going to have to use atomic power as our reserves of fossil fuels dwindle, and we may as well get used to it. We can't live in a Garden of Eden and still have a technological society...
...East of Eden...
...hadn't seen Elia Kazan's film of East of Eden (1954) until last summer. I was stunned by its emotional power, particularly by the performance of James Dean in his first starring role. Though based on just a part of Steinbeck's giant novel, Kazan's film possesses an epic authority far beyond most American films. Ted McCord's camerawork is one of the first outstanding uses of cinemascope...
When he learns his life has been no more real than a Paddy joke-that he is Scottish on both sides-the news affects Jack like expulsion from Eden. What is a Scotsman? Jack undergoes a case of nine-year shock trying to answer. First he becomes a non-Irishman-a "neutral man," practically evaporating in the arms of his girl Elizabeth, a perfect colleen stereotype with "about seventy-six brothers and sisters, and a drunken no-good father...
Moon's main focus is the tragedy of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, intended by God to be joined in divine matrimony, were to have been the perfect parents, and form, with God, a kind of Trinity to shape the world. But Eve sinned by committing adultery with an archangel, who thereby became Satan. According to Moon, Jesus was supposed to be a second Adam, creating the perfect family. His crucifixion, before he had a chance to marry, redeemed mankind spiritually, but not physically-a task left over for the Lord of the Second Advent. In Moon...