Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some American ears, unnervingly British. His two grandfathers were Anglican clergymen. He studied biology at Oxford and at the end of his life held a chair there at Christ College. He could (and did) recently write, "Our earth in 19697 Is not the planet I call mine/ ... My Eden landscapes and their climes/ Are constructs from Edwardian times." Early in his career, he could (and did) produce one of the most beautiful love lyrics ever written: "Lay your sleeping head, my love,/ Human on my faithless...
...name is Eve. I live in the Garden of Eden where I work as a woman...
...Boynton) Priestley, 79, who has outlived most of his literary rivals, has just come out with his 99th publication, a book entitled The English, whom many of his admirers think he epitomizes. In London, one of his plays, An Inspector Calls, has been restaged at the Mermaid, and another, Eden End, is slated as a tribute from the National Theater Company in April. Even his native Bradford, which Priestley has written about none too kindly, conferred the freedom of the city on him. As for growing old, Priestley explained what it was like: "It is as though walking down Shaftesbury...
...East of Eden. 1955 with Raymond Massey, J. Harris Dean, Burl Ives, directed by Elia Kazan. James Dean's best performance in which his capacity for portraying a rebel youth is fully used, unlike the more acclaimed Rebel Without a Cause, which was a spinoff of Brando's prototypical 50's motiveless wandervogel in The Wild One. Set on John Steinbeck's 30's Northern California farmland, Kazan strips the Nobel Prize winner's story of all its forced Biblical parallels. And in focussing the story upon the character played by Dean he creates the sort of lean, energetic, powerfully...
Janos Baltar, a profoundly sinuous villain, plays the snake in Simon's Garden of Eden: the spirit of holocaust inside the sanctuary...