Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adam Winthrop] have a real life..." she said"... Mine isn't real at all. That's one of the reasons I cover paper with words. But you run great institutions. You buy beautiful things. You are Adam Winthrop, the arbiter elegantiarum of New York...
...divinely inspired," engendered in each Winthrop as expiation or compensation for his headstart in life. That mission takes many forms. To Governor John Winthrop (1630), the mission entails hounding a religious non-conformist out of the young Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the interest, he believes, of public welfare. To Adam (1902), it means maintaining the standards of Society and the elitism of the Patroon Club by throwing a judicious blackball. Later, John (1967) serves as an advocate for the status quo, hawkishly backing the Vietnam...
...Adam Winthrop and, to a lesser extent, the other Winthrops in the book are in fact the author himself, thinly veiled. The contractual sense of mission dominates the book as it does Auchin-closs's life. Related both by marriage and blood to the Winthrop family, trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leader in the Century Club and the Downtown Association, Auchincloss prides himself on being an arbiter elegantiarum. So it is with authority that he writes about his Winthrop kinsmen, worthy judges of men and manners of their own times...
...Adam B. Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center branch of the CFIS, said yesterday he agreed with the current arrangement because it will cause fewer center offices to be moved from other locations...
Participants in the conference included Richard E. Pipes, Professor of History, and Adam B. Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center and professor of Government. Both addressed the development of U.S.-Soviet relations since the Soviet Party Congress...