Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only one step from awareness of Lockheed's self-serving to questioning whether free-market advocates have Adam Smith in mind or the lucrative-ness of their veiled misdeeds...
...Party Leader Georges Marchais has stated his belief in a democratic multiparty political system. Exactly what he has in mind, however, may not be reassuring; in 1974, for example, a French party congress praised the "democratic achievements" of the near-totalitarian regimes of Eastern Europe. No wonder Harvard Sovietologist Adam Ulam concludes: "Communist parties have always tried to maximize their power to the point where they would eventually achieve a one-party state." If progressive party leaders like Berlinguer are sincere, they still may not be able to deliver on their promises that their parties would observe the rules...
...Sheppard's review of Adam Smith's Powers of Mind [Oct. 27] identified me as "a former follower of Guru Maharaj Ji." I was a follower of Guru Maharaj Ji; I am also a present follower. A misstatement like this adds to the confusion created to date in the reporting on the work of Guru Maharaj...
Manifestations, Arthur Mitchell's first new ballet in five years, was the choreographic focal point on opening night. Under a canopy of stars in a silver Eden, Eve sprang from the stomach of Adam, reclining on aluminum mounds. The audience gasped with pleasure as tiny Susan Lovelle unfolded on point while Homer Bryant turned her around slowly on one leg like a potter molding clay on his wheel. But it was willowy Lydia Abarca, a dancer of pristine lyricism, and Paul Russell, all crackling magnetic energy, who were the undisputed stars of the evening. In William Dollar...
...clock ran down to 0:12 before Harvard stopped the game with a foul, Hines leaving the floor with his fifth personal. When Adam Sutton hit both ends of the resulting one-and-one situation, it looked as though Hines's earlier miscue had cost Harvard the game...