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Word: adamancy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries That Bloom in Spring | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

There are moments in Blake's large output when the linearity of his nudes becomes nearly absurd - they resemble skinned rabbits, thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the Old Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Gentle Seer of Felpham | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Ever since flamboyant Congressman Adam Clayton Powell lost his House seat in 1970, roly-poly Charles Coles Diggs Jr.. 55, has been the senior black member of Congress. The son of a powerful Michigan politician who became wealthy as an undertaker in Detroit, Diggs has won election to the House twelve times from the city's predominantly poor and black 13th Congressional District. Because of his seniority, he became the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. He is also chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee and the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diggs in Trouble | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Tyler criticized Adam Smith's theory of comparative advantages as "silly" because both heavyflight industries are moving to foreign countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporations | 3/16/1978 | See Source »

...play, "Lost Cookies," which ran at Eliot House last term, was written last summer by Kramer and Adam Bellows, a Princeton student and son of Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Local T. V. May Show 'Lost Cookies' | 2/17/1978 | See Source »

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