Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed to be discoursing on money. My publisher had flown me far from customary skies to talk about my book. But practicing on-the-air civility, I offered a few economic answers no more radical than Adam Smith's. We have a reasonably free society. People, including people who play first base, are privileged to offer their skills to the highest bidder. Personally, I prefer this to either monopoly sport or socialized sport. A lot I knew, said a radio listener in Dallas. The goddam greedy athletes were ruining the game...
...from straights. Last month some 100 gay activists converged on a Manhattan bar where an ax was suspended from the wall with a wooden plaque beneath it labeled FAIRY SWATTER. The gays demanded that the plaque be axed-or else. It was. The next target was Attorney Adam Walinsky, a former aide to Robert Kennedy. Walinsky had written an article questioning a special law to protect homosexuals. About 50 gays, some wielding baseball bats, hired a bus in Manhattan and headed for Walinsky's home in Scarsdale. When they arrived at 11 p.m., they cut the telephone lines...
...Awake!, was proclaiming a new date for Armageddon: "Today we have the evidence required, all of it. And it is overwhelming! All the many, many parts of the great sign of the 'last days' are here, together with verifying Bible chronology." That complex chronology ran like this: Adam was created in the autumn of 4026 B.C., which meant that 6,000 years of human existence would end in late 1975. The 6,000 years would be followed by the Millennium, 1,000 years of "Sabbathlike rest," just as God rested after six days of Creation and established...
Asked about 1975, Franz now says that the 6,000-year chronology is correct, but the seventh day of Creation did not begin until Eve was created. Thus the date for the End has to be extended by the amount of time between the advent of Adam and of Eve-an interval not yet revealed (previous Witness publications had stated that Adam and Eve were created in the same year...
...Adam C. Pauli Jr. Cheyenne...