Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before the Clermont-Ferrand landscape. But they, too, exist as personalities in individual memories: Hitler is recalled as favoring "harmless little liaisons" over inter-marriage, claiming that his soldiers' desire to marry French women was caused "by lack of sexual opportunities." Those famous men who are interviewed, Anthony Eden and Pierre Mendes-France in particular, speak more of the times than of great events. Mendes-France, recalling his escape from prison, is reminded of the modesty of a young woman whose boyfriend propositioned her as they stood beneath the prison wall from which he was about to jump. She took...
...YORK-JEWISH TONE that both Miller and the actors give to a number of the characters seems humorously anachronistic and at the same time strangely apt in the Old Testament context. "Schmuck!" God addresses Adam as he prepares to oust him from the Garden of Eden. Adam himself, portrayed by Bob Dishy as the typical Brooklyn boy, has an endearing pose--hands holding his sides at rib level, elbows jutting directly out--that simultaneously recalls an ape-man and a street-corner adolescent. The angels of Mercy and Death find their modern Jewish counterparts in benevolent grandfatherly Lou Gilbert (with...
Into this "wasteland" climate of despair, a countermyth of hope, has been introduced. It may be identified as the myth of the New Arcadia. The New Arcadians see their salvation in a return to Eden innocence. Arcadian man will not reprogram the world; externalized change is the Promethean trap. Arcadian man will change his own head. He will retap the sources within his archetypal self. A million individual religious experiences will take place, and these will change the world...
...book's perfect emblem is "A New Year Greeting." "I should like to think that I make/ a not impossible world," one stanza begins, "but an Eden it cannot be." Auden is addressing the invisible, microscopic creatures who inhabit his body ("Yeasts, Bacteria, Viruses, Aerobic and Anaerobics") as men inhabit the world. Clinical knowledge of their doings helps him spin out a metaphysical conceit that manages to spoof mildly the anthropocentric folly of men in assuming that God thinks in human imagery, and at the same time modestly asserts that God exists...
Vegetarians can turn to Science and learn of a breakthrough in genetics that may one day allow man to blend mangoes and melons and other combinations of fruits or vegetables. For animal fanciers, Environment tells of a zookeeper trying to collect as many of Eden's original inhabitants as possible. That is good news to anyone who has never seen an addax, or even an Arabian oryx...