Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more mundane level, River House residents--who currently pay for toilet paper--not surprisingly said they want it free. And Quad residents, who don't pay for toilet paper, say they won't pay so everyone else can have it free. So much for Adam Smith's "invisible hand...
...Adam's third in the 500-yd freestyle (5:36.53) and Julie McAree's third in the 100-yd. butterfly (1:05.11) were both personal best times...
...mile relay team, consisting of Adam Dixon, Thad McNulty, John Chafee and John Murphy, turned in a stunning performance in toppling a Greater Boston Track Club squad which included Mark Belger, America's premier half-miler, and Greg Meyer who has clocked a 3:58 mile...
That is what the Chicago production failed to do. Adam and Eve, sung by Baritone William Stone and Soprano Ellen Shade, and Satan, Bass-Baritone Peter Van Ginkel, stumbled about in semidarkness. There seemed to be a ban on imaginative staging. Only twelve days before the premiere, the director, Virginio Puecher, resigned under pressure. "He wanted to do too much movement," said Penderecki. "I think that the drama should be in the music...
...tunics and helmets of war, the opera appeared to take place during a truce. The characters seemed symbolic figures in a morality play, and majesty and miracles were in short supply. A stunning exception was John Butler's choreography of the dances depicting the creation and union of Adam and Eve. The awakening of Adam (danced by Dennis Wayne), in which he slowly uncurled from a womblike position, was a high point in the opera...