Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said: "I want to say this to you whites in the audience, and whites everywhere, that if you think there were riots after Martin Luther King was killed, this nation won't survive if anything happens to Adam Clayton Powell...
...typical bit of Chestertoniana. Everywhere he went, he restated the riddle of life: When is a miracle not a miracle? The answer: when it is seen for the second time. To preserve his sense of wonder, he regarded the world with the eyes of Adam. Like those other English riddlers, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and W.S. Gilbert, Chesterton was childless. Like them, he became his own child, a 300-lb. choirboy reveling in puns and paradox. But between Chesterton and the Victorians there was a profound difference. Traditionally, English eccentrics sought refuge hi nonsense. Chesterton found shelter in sense...
...Adam Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center and professor of Government, the problems are similar to those at many centers at Harvard and elsewhere. The Russian Research Center receives almost all of its aid exclusively from the Ford Foundation, and he says the foundation has already told him, "It is time for someone else to take over." But as for solutions, Ulam explains, "It would be most unlikely that we could get money from Russia." And although Ulam has not gone to U.S. corporations dealing with Russia for help. Goldman explains that few corporations would want to pump money...
...Center, because in fact there never was any. As I said over the telephone, our Center has not had the slightest connection with any intelligence gathering organization, nor has it undertakes any classified project. Since its beginning the Center has been and remains a purely scholarly research institution. Adam B. Ulam Director of the Russian Research Center
...studies for this project survive; it was too grandiose and expensive to be carried out. His fixation on Michelangelo was such that when painting Sin, Pursued by Death (1794-96), one of the pictures he made to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost, Fuseli appropriated Michelangelo's Adam for the pose of Sin's voluptuous torso (see color page). That was about as unsuitable a use of the Sistine as one could imagine...