Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's first drama occurred in the Garden of Eden with only two characters onstage, and they decided that paradise was well lost for love. To a degree, this is the same conclusion reached by a latter-day Adam and Eve in a delightful one-acter called Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr. Kooning...
REBELS IN EDEN: MASS POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES by Richard E. Rubenstein. 201 pages. Little, Brown...
Mythical Melting Pot. By contrast, Richard Rubenstein has converted similar concerns into a lively argument full of historic fact. His theme is simple - and fashionable. Violence, he says in Rebels in Eden, is often an effective and imperative act of the powerless seeking imperative act of the powerless seeking power. American history is incomparably richer in violence than most Americans are willing to remember...
...goes on to say, "recapitulates a tragic error-the identification of the American dream with present reality. And this, of course, is precisely what the myth of peaceful progress is intended to accomplish. The characterization of America as a peacefully self-transforming system leaves no room for violent protest. Eden is not Eden unless he who rebels is an original sinner...
...knows she's calling. He stops to listen and his zooming face is the face of a small boy who has blamed his thumb with his own hammer. He tells Girl the obedient to come and they disappear miserably into the next small valley. Cast out of Eden over a little misunderstanding. And the angel has not a flaming sword but only love to offer them. As she starts barefoot after them, old Alfred whines and the angel tells him "Bad karma Alfred. You stay." He comes though, lacing himself in her footsteps all the way down the first barranca...