Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apple Tree is based on three stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stoekton and Jules Feiffer, but any trace of these authors' original intent has been systematically expunged in the adaptation by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Hamick. The first segment. "The Diary of Adam and Eve," describes the problems of setting up the world's very first household. These problems, however, are in significant when compared to Eve's (Debby Rayson's) inability to find a register in which her troublesome voice will be content to stay. Eve weasels her way into Adam's hut, and finally into his heart...
...first, Adam didn't really like Eve, but by the end of the skit they are proclaiming their undying love to each other. They didn't really leave paradise, because they still had each other, and that, you see, is paradise. Unfortunately, Bock and Harnick insist upon reiterating this devastating insight three times in songs so soggy with sentimentality you could dunk your donuts in them...
...Adam B. Ulam professor of Government, gets a different sort of treatment. Ulam is a well-known Sovietologist, which Kobysh says is synonymous with "antiSoviet" here...
...Adam Clayton Powell...
...said: "If we have to start over again, with another Adam and Eve. I want them to be Americans and not Russians, and I want them on this continent, and not in Europe...