Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everybody has the feeling that Harvard will take over the whole neighborhood eventually," says Adam Artis, a resident at 9 Sacramento Place, who has lived in his Harvard-owned twofamily house for five years. Lydia Enos, a neighbor of Artis, several years ago refused to sell her house to Harvard buyers. She says she is very fond of her neighborhood, and had no interest in selling, despite the high prices; Harvard offered. Wylie says that Harvard's tenants' fears that their homes were purchased for landbanking purposes is legitimate...
...successors. In special palace rooms, they assembled a kind of encyclopedia of the world's wonders, here painstakingly reconstructed from engravings and a 1587 inventory of objects. Since in their view, painters and sculptors were artisans like any other, bronze busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other craftsmen-a drinking vessel in the shape of an ostrich, an astronomical clock, a carpenter's jack plane or an ornate traveling tool...
Born in Manhattan in 1904, Fats grew up in Harlem, where his father was a pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the establishment that Adam Clayton Powell Jr. later made famous. He started playing the harmonium when he was six, and his proud father took him to Carnegie Hall to hear Paderewski, hoping that Fats would become a classical pianist. Waller had other ideas, however, and when he was in his teens, he fell under the tutelage of Willie ("the Lion...
...already said in the Bible. If races are "fallen," he reasons, they would lack the supertechnology to span the light years and make contact with each other. But Fetcho suspects that we probably are alone. To him, the Bible seems to indicate that the entire universe fell with Adam and Eve and that its redemption is connected with the work of Jesus Christ. For instance, Romans 8: 19-23 ("... we know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now"). Perhaps, Fetcho proposes, the UFOs are real but are not visits by space beings-they are, rather...
Kramer wrote the play in conjunction with Adam Bellow, a Princeton University student, about Harvard undergraduate dormitory life. After its premiere at Eliot House last December, William Lull, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offered to produce the play in videotape form for television...