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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kingston Daily Gleaner put it bluntest of all, in a cartoon showing Adams standing alone under a palm tree as ships labeled with names of the federation's members pull out in all directions...
...brother Belus making love to a girl named Hebe. The fig-leaf episode (No. 4) is the surprised lovers guiltily covering their nakedness, during which Hebe falls for Agenor, and in No. 3 is advised by the Serpent Death to give Belus an apple from the Serpent's tree. The apple drugs Belus into unconsciousness (No. 2), whereupon Hebe tells Agenor to finish his brother off, which he does with his curved knife (No. 1)-the scene interpreted by the author of Genesis as God performing the famous operation on Adam...
...film was inspired by childhood memories of "the strange vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls" in churches where his father preached. Working with several of the common themes of medieval art (the Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted "to express the modern dilemma" in the form of a medieval morality play-a tall order which he is seldom able to fill. The Gothic spirit had the natural beauty and mysteriousness of a growing thing. Bergman...
...walk down Prospect Street is the pleasantest excursion at Princeton. Down a broad, tree-pillared avenue, with great and handsome residences on either side, substantial edifices of stone and brick and leaded glass--the clubs. You can float down Prospect in a Fitzgeraldian dream, the wealth of accomplished architecture styles deluding you into the past. But up and around the corner, on a busier street, sets a building simple as reality, and as unavoidable as 1959. That is Prospect Club, its name a wistful mark of its exclusion. Prospect has always been the poor club, the wonk co-op club...
...just its curiosity? In either case, the dentist has become a celebrated crusader. A naturalist sees in him the hope of the world. "Man," he says, "is destroying the plants, the animals, all the living roots that heaven planted in the earth. Poison heaven at its roots, and the tree will wither and die. The stars will go out, and heaven will be destroyed." And the hero concludes: "Who knows? If man begins by saving the elephants, he may end by saving himself...