Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpret God's will as a mandate for the divine right of kings?a sacred and descending chain of authority. In 1680, Sk Robert Filmer's Patriarcha or the Natural Power of Kings expressed this idea according to a metaphor of relative power: "Kings are as absolute as Adam over the creatures." A king, thought Filmer, rules his people as a father rules ins children. In 1681, the writer James Tyrrell, a friend of Locke's, replied in Patriarcha non Monarcha that on the contrary, a king is as much under the law as are ins subjects: all are bound...
...Adam B. Ulam, who is also professor of Government, said that although the Yugoslav government of Marshall Tito has been one of the most independent among Communist countries its foreign policy is "very close to the Soviet line...
...evidence of having been heavily edited, probably in a Cuisinart. A lot of individual shots do not match. Once in a while, someone breaks into song, suggesting that The Blue Bird may once have been a musical. Director George Cukor is one of the most urbane American film makers (Adam's Rib, Holiday), but here both his good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp...
There were ironies aplenty in the scandal. In 1967, Hays had led an investigation of Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who was charged, among other things, with taking women companions along on official junkets. Powell, perhaps more on target than he realized, replied that he had just been doing what white Congressmen often did but was being hounded because he was black...
Futurists can help to forestall these troubles. Or they can press for changes in some remote purgatory or Eden. Examining Herman Kahn's thesis, Adam Yarmolinsky, University of Massachusetts professor, asks a series of rhetorical questions: "How do we get from here to there? What is the best mind set to move us in that direction? Are we more likely to succeed if we keep our eyes firmly on the target centuries away? Or ought we to be more concerned about pitfells, obstacles, difficulties we seem to be encountering in the immediate future...