Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This bulldog nationalism and Dover Cliffs insularity interact with a suspicion that the Common Market is Catholic and capitalist and would corrupt Protestant and socialist Britain. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, British Journalist Paul Johnson divided Britons into insularists (King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Anthony Eden) and Continentalists (Thomas a Becket. Charles I, Harold Macmillan). "Britain has always chosen the adventure of sovereignty in preference to the presumed security of a Continental system," wrote Johnson. "And history shows that in the end she has always chosen rightly...
Meantime, a bushman (an authentic one named David Gumpilil) fearlessly traverses the country-the sky his ceiling, the air his blanket-boomeranging lizards and kangaroos in order to eat. Stumbling upon the lost souls, this natural man guides them through his Eden. Walkabout suddenly becomes a lyric travelogue, assaulting the harsh Flinders mountain ranges, trailing the little camels of the red desert near Alice Springs, mooning under the blooming quandong tree. Director Nicolas Roeg, who made his reputation as a cinematographer (Fahrenheit 451, Far from the Madding Crowd. Petulia), shows a precise and delicate Down Understanding. But give him anything...
...also come to probe the political complexion of Sadat's new government. Since the days of Nikita Khrushchev, who once admitted to Sadat that "we cannot drive people into paradise with a stick," Moscow has hoped that the Egyptians would eventually find their own way into the socialist Eden. Egypt's only political party, the Arab Socialist Union, appeared an ideal ideological instrument for the journey; it was certainly no accident that Ali Sabry, Sadat's principal competitor for power, was until last month both the dominant voice within the A.S.U. and the Egyptian leader closest...
Bandits in Eden. Elon quotes the letter Ben-Gurion wrote to his pregnant wife when in 1918, with the British organizing the Jewish Legion to occupy Palestine, he temporarily abandoned her for the cause: "I did not want to give you a small, cheap, secular kind of happiness. I prepared for you the great sacred human joy achieved through suffering and pain." From such moral heights as well as a rightful sense of wrongs endured, passionate Zionists could not take seriously the half-million Palestinian Arabs who were viewed merely as a harassment in Eden. Arab attacks, which began...
...Such a thesis has formed the basis for many successful farces, The Madwoman of Chaillot, for example. But this lunacy in Manhattan has no imagination to propel its whimsy, no language to give it breath. Goldman is a dealer in used ideas ("The Bible has it wrong-Earth is Eden!" cries Justin). Scott continues to act with impatient power, but his messages all seem self-addressed. Woodward's real sweetness becomes ersatz and saccharine...