Word: edens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case there was no tenure battle or political infighting. It was simply that the young professor, 30, realized he could never afford to buy a home in California. Although Holyoke is a topnotch Eastern women's college, Weber admits: "I feel I've been expelled from Eden and I don't know what I did to deserve such a fate...
When Disraeli was asked to distinguish a misfortune from a calamity, he was inspired: "If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anyone pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity." Some English insults are sharp. Nye Bevan on Anthony Eden: "The juvenile lead." Some are odd. Charles Kingsley called Shelley "a lewd vegetarian." It sounds interesting but is difficult to picture. The top of the line was created by John Wilkes for the Earl of Sandwich...
...third and best novel, Robert F. Jones tracks the elemental grandeur of Alaska from feral Eden to pipeline ruination. In 1950 Bush-Pilot Buddies Jack Slade and Sam Healey are forced to land their aging C-47 in the icy outback. Charlie Blue, a Tlingit Indian shaman, appears and assists them through a surpassingly beautiful valley to rescue. The pilots promise to return, but before they can, Healey leaves Slade holding a smoking pistol and a murder rap in the wake of a saloon brawl. End of partnership. Slade settles down to homestead the secret valley. Thirty years later Healey...
...last week Eden Pastora stunned the Sandinista leadership by resigning as Vice Minister of Defense and leaving for Panama. The ruling directorate tried to talk Pastora into returning. Three directorate members appeared on national television to plead with the revolutionary hero to "undo" his action...
...possible that the very weakness that makes the human species difficult if not evil is the main thing that makes it interesting? If so, that is scarcely the only contradiction in the human drama. Alas, one may, plausibly enough, wonder whether humankind, if it had remained in Eden, might not have perished of ennui. -Frank Trippett