Word: edens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casting contretemps over Miss Saigon may have been resolved, but the reverberations continue. When American actor Ken Page was cast as God in the forthcoming London musical Children of Eden, the British actors' union prepared to lodge an official protest. How could audiences accept a Yank as the Almighty? Director John Caird countered that he had auditioned British actors for the part, and all were, well, inadequate. British Equity backed off, but an official noted dryly that the union "welcomes talented foreign artists working in our country even when they are required to play such an obviously British part...
Welcome to White Oak Plantation, an outpost of paradise that slipped the Lord's notice when he expunged the rest of Eden. Gazelles and antelope play here. Tigers roam. In the streams black-necked swans bob through the absurdities of their mating ritual. Perhaps even Terpsichore darts about in * the shadows, inspiring a menagerie of humans who have come to the plantation to prepare an innovative evening of dance...
Morrison's final lecture dealt with themes of "Blackness" in Ernest Hemingway's novels To Have and Have Not and The Garden of Eden...
...Michael Shyjan (HARVARD) d. Glenn Welling (Penn), 6-7, 6-1, 6-0; 3. Mark Leschly (HARVARD) d. Devin Shaffer (Penn), 6-4, 7-5; 4. Derek Brown (HARVARD) d. Nikos Hecht (Penn), 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; 5. John Tolmie (HARVARD) d. Doug Eden (Penn), 3-6, 6-3, 7-6; 6. Ravi Kumar (HARVARD) d. Alex Schmid (Penn...
...western edge of America, where the continent falls into the Pacific as it follows the sun, the coast has always seemed an image of Eden, a garden of earthly delights. "There is an island called California, on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Earthly Paradise," wrote a 16th century Spanish fantasist in a novel that gave the Golden State its name. California and other stretches of the Pacific shore would become the fated and fateful destinations of adventurous journeys westward by European settlers, cowboys, miners, Forty- Niners and dreamers. There the travelers would pass, or so they...