Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time to return to Adam Smith, but this time...
...devoted to a provocative look at controversial issues in the area of science and medicine," the brochure says, with Professors Everett I. Mendelsohn, Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and lectures by Leon Eisenberg, Jean Mayer, and Stephen Weinberg. The third session concentrated on the politics and history of Soviet Russia, with Adam B. Ulam, Edward L. Keenan, Donald L. Fanger, and Marshall I. Goldman. Each session drew between 75 and 100 people...
...Adam Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center, which invited Amarlik, said yesterday the first invitation sent to Amarlik was delivered three years ago while he was still in exile. The center has not had correspondence with Amarlik, but his public statements indicate that he would like to accept Harvard's invitation...
...Jacob A.O. Preus is a classics scholar who takes his Bible straight. He accepts literally the story of the creation-in Genesis, insists that Adam and Eve were historical figures and believes that Noah's flood covered the entire globe since Genesis says so. Because of Jesus' reference to the story of Jonah's sojourn in "a great fish," Preus accepts the tale as fact...
...ship, Preus cracked down. His main targets were faculty members of the denomination's major academic arm, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis. These teachers, who in the ensuing debate styled themselves moderates, take a less rigid view of the Bible, accepting modern interpretation that explains the story of Adam and Eve, for instance, less as history than myth. In 1974 Preus won the ouster of the seminary's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, on charges of fostering "false doctrine." Supporting Tietjen, the majority of Concordia's faculty and students walked out, starting a rival seminary...