Word: edens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford populates her 509-page book with imaginary characters who might have been rented from Dickens: Vivian Fein Quales, Jason Seldom, Basil Prout, Lance Loomer, Dr. Madora Waxley and Eden Ceilings worth, among others. Some of her advice could have been lifted from a phrase book written in Taiwan, for example, changing the subject during an unpleasant conversation: "Did you know Cecily Margolis is getting braces, along with her oldest, Agatha...
...speakers, occasionally frustrated, often inspiring, seemed to imply that if only politicians and the public were as farsighted and rational and humanitarian as they, we'd return to the Garden of Eden. But instead of paradise, they fear a nuclear hell, in which as Khruschev warned, "The survivors will envy the dead...
...story of Adam and Eve should have made the point once and for all: no matter how blissful the garden, there is always a snake in the grass somewhere. Yet the green enticements of Eden die hard, especially among city folk who would not know a primrose from a petunia. The more man-made their environment, the more likely they are to dream of running for shade. In The Beginning Place, her 13th novel, Ursula Le Guin retells this story, one of the oldest in Western literature, in modern dress. She creates two postadolescents who are drowning in personal uncertainties...
...grain cultivation. Kansas and Oklahoma are wheat country. Just north in the hardy soil of Illinois and Iowa lie the great corn belt and vast fields of soybeans. Farther north, in the Dakotas and Minnesota, grow wheat, soybeans, sugar beets. Here is the richest farm land east of Eden, where the biblical seven years of bountiful harvests are usually followed not by famine but by seven more years of plenty...