The Garden of Eden

...No other writer handsome West Texas cowboy got up can get away with telling us in such and asked if he could put a question detail what his characters eat at every "to both of you very provocative meal...

...The best summary of Chesterton available...

...With this readiness to give already an obligation it is not hard to understand how the Roberts organization can raise millions of dollars from hundreds of thousands...

...No writer ever worked so close to self-parody even when he was at his best...

...But it isn't fashion designer born in the Bronx long before Catherine starts to make puts it—that spirit of the West in all of odd demands which her husband can- us...

...Hemingway placed too many obstacles in the way...

...A couple of "peacocks in a world of mud hens," they were always so impatient to get to the next town that they couldn't sit through a whole movie much less wait for their laundry to be ready—they just got in the car and forgot about it...

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...contains some of Hemingway's best writing...

...No, what is new about The Garden of Eden is not the passivity of its protagonist, but the eerie sensibility which governs the book...

...The message of Hemingway's other THE GARDEN OF EDEN Ernest Hemingway/Charles Scribner's Sons/$18.95 George Sim Johnston 44 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1986 RAIN OR SHINE: A FAMILY MEMOIR Cyra McFadden/Alfred A. Knopf/$16.95 Thomas Mallon novels is that the world can be grasped by action, not by contemplation...

...There is something in the brightness of this spot which decomposes their old particles...

...Reviewers have been baffled by the passivity of David Bourne...

...Things happen to the men in Hemingway novels...

...essays, poetry , and apologetics...

...No-into the atmosphere of their life body east of longitude 100°W could together—the swims off deserted have gotten away with it, but this beaches, the long aperitifs on bright cowboy was the genuine article, terraces, the playful conversations somebody who could touch—as that about nothing in particular...

...He possessed as many sensitivities as you might care to find in a modern writer...

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...Has he enlarged the spiritual dimension of American life through the institutions he founded and developed...

...A novelist named David Bourne comes to the south of France on his honeymoon...

...By Cyra's third birthday she had traveled 150,000 miles with them, enough to merit an A.P...

...This substantial work shows the many sides of Chesterton's mind...

...This, if you will, is orthodox fundamentalism, consistent with the reaction against liberal Protestantism's social gospel during the early years of the twentieth century...

...The Serial young woman named Marita...

...We are given a wide variety of highly readable and enjoyable selections from his noels...

...at his worst, he would have had difficulty making it to the final rounds of a Hemingway parody contest...

...Sewn soft-cover, $9.95 — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger A CHESTERTON ANTHOLOGY Edited by P. J. Kavanagh G. K. Chesterton is one of the most widely quoted 20th century writers...

...Or have his endeavors been merely the willful and arbitrary expression of compulsive egotism...

...Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises is a gelded stud...

...According to Admiral Stansfield 'Ihrner's admission, the CIA analyzed everything about Iran except the convictions of Shia Muslims, which were taken to be of little account...

...The Garden of Eden opens with them sitting around the Grau du Roi in the off-season...

...But his case is complicated...

...An obsessive THE RATZINGER REPORT An Exclusive Interview On the State of the Church Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger with Vittorio Messori In this controversial, highly publicized interview, Cardinal Ratzinger speaks candidly and forcefully about the state of the Church in the post-Vatican 11 era...

...The two parents are pictured in sepia glamour on the cover of Rain or Shine...

...Know how complicated it is and then state it simply," the writer David Bourne tells himself, and that is the way Papa operated...

...He was not only an actor ("Papa" was one of his most carefully wrought fictions), but also a misleading chronicler of his own past...

...That is what people mean when they say that they `discover themselves' here...

...What does woman About ten years ago Cyra McFadden want...

...Even if The Garden of Eden turned out to be a bad novel, I could count on it being writ-ten in English and not some dialect of the media...

...But he lived by a self-imposed code on the way he was going to present himself in his writing and his life...

...Norman Douglas, who surely knew, neatly summed up the psychological climate of this book in South Wind: "Northern minds seem to become fluid here, impression-able, unstable, unbalanced—what you please...

...The wind was still west, ruffling the edges of the cookies...

...The atmosphere is languid, occasion to attend a debate on the melting...

...Unlike most of his television brethren, Roberts has rarely involved himself in politics...

...Harrell...

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...Indeed, populism has been powered as much by religious passions as by social grievances, whether among the German Anabaptists, the English Levellers, the Democrats of William Jennings Bryan, or the socialists of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas...

...A good biography has yet to be written...

...wirephoto of herself with the caption: "She Sees America...

...She then picks up a girl and tells him that she is going to see what it is like with a woman...

...Aren't Hemingway men supposed to slap around their women and throw grenades and bring down lions with shots which are clean and true...

...David goes fishing at one Equal Rights Amendment in the point, and the outing is curiously Municipal Auditorium of Lubbock, emblematic—far from stalking big Texas...

...Thus, no mat-ter how obscure and downtrodden the individual lives of Roberts's "partners" may be, they are magnified to great power by his successes and, as such, bring comfort and joy...

...for quite a while, right through the Hemingway creates a small Eden in audience-participation period, when a the opening chapters...

...It must be clearly stated that a real reform of the Church presupposes an unequixocal turning away from the erroneous paths whose catastrophic consequences are already incontestable...

...Given the reports over the years of a 1,500-page turkey sitting in the Scribner vaults, one would expect The Garden of Eden, no matter how well edited, to be at least as bad as the bad parts of Islands in the Stream...

...not figure out...

...Phyllis Schlafly and Ms...

...Pat and Cy inevitably split up, Cy to marry Dorothy, who sobered him into a respectable legend, a rodeo equivalent of Bing Crosby or John Wayne...

...is a question which puzzled made a name for herself with The Hemingway as much as it did Freud...

...I: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies This first volume of Chesterton's writings contains three of his most influential and engaging works...

...They competed in drink and infidelity, "two careless people . . . doing their imitation of Scott and Zelda...

...Hemingway wrote from direct experience and made discoveries about the use of language—or, more precisely, moved deeper into territory already discovered by writers as diverse as Mark Twain and Ronald Firbank—which made him the most influential prose writer of the twentieth century...

...She does see ("You just lose something and its gone that's all"), and then pushes him into bed with the girl...

...I don't recall the question, but ingway's characters, we would not I do remember the brief laughing con-recognize David and Catherine Bourne sensus this thick dollop of sexual if we met them, and yet we enter fully charm brought to the audience...

...Some events' which we know about, such as his first wife Hadley's losing a trunkful of his manuscripts, have been transposed, and others no doubt have been invented, which is the storyteller's prerogative...

...He certainly would not beat E. B. White: "They entered the restaurant...

...There follows a menage a trois in the course of which the two women switch roles as David's muse...

...But with Roberts, the impetus of faith does not drive believers here and now to replace the City of Man with the City of God...

...It is an was a funny book about that land of indication of how oddly "post- fibrous foods, hot tubs, and massaged modern" this book is that Marita consciousnesses, and from it one would reminds one of no other woman in never have guessed that its author had literature so much as Ruth in Pinter's her real roots in an older version of the The Homecoming...

...Ilirgenev, but don't get me in the ring with Mr...

...They exchange genders in bed and experiment with some kind of bizarre androgynous sex whose technical nature is not revealed...

...of Eden that it is an unpublishable Cy Taillon was a braggart, a liar, a mess...

...Presumably, this has made him less interesting to commentators who find preachers arresting only when using religion as a pretext for political assaults...

...When Papa's women cry, there are no cartoon captions, just tears, falling straight and true...

...Pat was left to settle in Missoula, Montana with Roy Qualley, Cy's former best pal, a "heel snapper" who'd helped keep Pat and Cy organized on the circuit, all the time waiting to claim Pat the moment she and Cy fell apart...

...This is surely the strangest honeymoon in fiction since The Kreutzer Sonata...

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...His force of personality was such that Cyra was more than twenty before she realized her father was short...

...Lieutenant Henry in A Farewell to Arms, for example, is a non-combatant who drives an ambulance, barely holds up his end of a conversation, and lets his lover orchestrate their affair ("What the hell, I thought...

...Ratzinger's forthright, measured criticism of certain forms of liberation theology, and his removal of the imprimatur from two widely read books in the U.S., are well known...

...Cy's first wife and Cyra's mother was Pat Montgomery, a dancer and trick rider...

...Another powerful appeal may be that, apart from whateversatisfaction investors derive from sup-porting good works, they are also able to identify with the success of Oral Roberts University, the City of Faith hospital and medical center, and all the other agencies of Roberts's mission, even the victories of the ORU basket-ball team (a matter of no little concern to the reverend founder...

...As is the case with all of Hem- ladies...

...as he is given to understand it, advanced or retarded the spirituality of those who accept his message...

...Biographical speculation aside, we have an interesting story of three people who do weird things to one another under the Mediterranean sun...

...And the descriptive writing is to this day Cyra McFadden isn't evocative, if occasionally flat...

...Simple, yes—but just try to write a paragraph of the stuff...

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...game fish on the open seas, like some Karen DeCrow (former president of Hemingway characters, he fishes in a NOW) had been abusing one another canal with a bamboo pole...

...And some of the bestshort stories are devastating studies of the male psyche stripped of everything except fear...

...All I wanted to know was how to live in it...

...This deserves to become the standard introduction to Chesterton...

...To separate fact from fiction in his memoir, A Moveable Feast, for ex-ample, requires what he himself referred to as a "built-in, shock-proof shit detector...

...they seldom take the initiative...

...She is an innocent who the daughter of Cy 'Paillon, all-time nonetheless manages to be a conduit of king of rodeo announcers, and that she other people's worst tendencies...

...If that is so, the House of compulsive scrapbook-keeper who be-Scribner has a young editor of great lieved his press clippings...

...Has he been true to the Holy Spirit in his life and ministry...

...Jeez, I've beaten Mr...

...Yes, they are supposed to do all these things, but if you consider the run of Hemingway's male characters, David Bourne is not that far out of line...

...His bride talks him into getting a unisex haircut to match her own...

...So they loved him, even human relationships with that same when he borrowed their prize money or quality, the only time he did so in a novel...

...They work on their tans, try new cocktails, and discuss what they are going to eat at the One evening late in the 1970s I had next meal...

...The American intelligentsia, especially in academe, can scarcely bear to consider that religion is desperately vital to millions of people, no less so in the United States...

...We are seeing a side of Hemingway which he seldom allowed to slip into his writing...

...Edmund allowed to pay for her drinks in certain Wilson wrote of the early Hemingway bars in the West...

...They go where the action is...

...In the end, though, it must be on spiritual terms that Roberts should be measured...

...had lived most of her life in thrall to I am told by someone who has read a more dangerous version of the cow-the original manuscript of The Garden boy charm mentioned above...

...But David and Catherine are more like lotus-eaters on a remote shoreline...

...She is not amoral, West, that Cyra McFadden was in fact she is unmoral...

...His influence has been enormous, and this volume spear-heads the great revival of interest in Chesterton's works...

...Has his doing of God's will, After finishing the latest work of an acclaimed living novelist, which is filled with sentences like "Great silly Quaalude tears like Disney raindrops were rolling down her cheeks," I opened the "new" Hemingway novel with a sigh of relief...

...During the early fifties he got in a few licks against the Reds, but since then has kept quiet about partisan issues or ideological conflicts...

...Fundamentalism contains a tradition of sacrificial giving that exceeds the tithes ordinary Protestants are asked to make to their churches...

...Chesterton's writings are so rich in good sense, in wit, and in plain, profound and cheerful truth that almost every page deserves a review to itself...

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...Serial, a satire of the modern West, or Still things go fine until a snake enters at least that attenuation of it known as the garden in the form of a beautiful Marin County, California...

...It is a curious book, and it will Thomas Mallon teaches English at make the Hemingway legacy that much Vassar College and is the author of A more difficult to figure out...

...He would rarely "for-that he invested his landscapes with "a get a cowboy's name, or where he came sinister quality which must be new in from, or how he fared in previous literature...

...This has not, however, prevented Roberts from engaging sympathizers in "blessing-pacts," which "promise" material as well as spiritual rewards to those who invest in his works...

...It is a pleasant surprise that the book is not only an absorbing narrative but George Sim Johnston is a writer living in New York...

...In The Garden of Eden, we rodeos, no matter how chronic a loser see the late Hemingway investing the cowboy...

...Tolstoy...

...Pentecostals, in the main, have continued to keep their distance, confident their lives are more "Christ-centered" because they resist such distractions...

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...You discover a mechanism, you know, when you take it to pieces...

...He was a kind of aesthete who possessed much strange knowledge, a bookish man who knew all the five-dollar words, and yet he chose to be "Hemingway" and write simple straightforward prose...

...If the epithet, secular humanist, reveals any real shame, it is that those so stigmatized are mired down in a dispirited worldliness that prevents them from respecting either God or man, what Bunyan called "the Slough of Despond...

...Book of One's Own...

...Hemingway was far more complicated than the hard-drinking braggart depicted in Lillian Ross's famous New Yorker pro-file...

...Harrell is perhaps wise to decline to make such judgments, not only be-cause the life of Roberts has yet to run its course, but because these are matters that exceed the competence of professional historians, even one so meticulous as Mr...

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...Hemingway never wrote bet- cowboys (for helping to transform ter dialogue, not even in The Sun Also rodeo from a carnival into a sport) that Rises...

...Pat was as vain as Cy and just as capable of bantamweight brawling ("A hundred-pound woman can do substantial damage with teeth, fingerThree Outstanding New Books Name Street City State Zip nl Please include $1.50 for postage and handling...

...their wives...

...The Garden of Eden, which Hemingway started in the forties and never finished, appears to be a revisionist history of at least three of his four marriages...

...He was also talent under its roof, because the novel handsome enough to double for Robert that we have is a rounded and satisfy- Taylor in the movies, and so revered by ing work...

...But what is going on here...

...Hemingway characters may be passive, but they manage to submerge themselves in "the destructive element...

...rather it moves the individual to concern himself above all with his own salvation...

...I did not care what it was all about," says Jake Barnes...

...It is ironic that latterday fundamentalists should re-enter the sinful world with a vengeance, casting aside their forefathers' warnings about the shallowness and sterility of secular involvement...

...But it seems that we have yet another American novel motivated by the desire to settle scores with past and present mates...

...In this extensive, wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Ratzinger addresses a variety of critical issues in the Church, making clear what he thinks the problems are—and their solutions...