Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brisk scenes that capture both the suddenness and improbability of such success. Once he has it made, MacLaine becomes in quick succession a poet, a guru, a her mit and finally a cultural casualty. He is aided and discomforted through the entire trajectory by his personal man ager (Adam Faith), and the business man (Larry Hagman) who has turned him into a conglomerate...
...version of "Paradise Rejected" and gives LaZebnik a chance to play around with Milton and Shakespeare jokes. Some are good: "To be or not to be," someone begins. "Well, there's nothing to be gained by pursuing that line of thought." The appearance onstage of Satan, Adam, Eve, and God (as well as a deadpin walk-on by St. Peter Borowitz that steals the show for a few moments is a source or clever lines for LaZebnik, usually Satan sings...
Francias, who is described as a tall, black, tweedy type claimed to be the nephew of Adam Clayton Powell.He had allegedly also belonged to an exclusive eating club at Princeton without attending that university, before coming to Columbia...
...opposition to the cheese souffle, the rice and bean casserole, and the friendly omelette? Who knows? He might even decide to live in a co-op like Radcliffe's Jordan K, where, as in the real world, switching to five meaty days a week would be no cutback. Adam Glass...
Among the biblical questions still being pondered by Catholic scholars is monogenism?the belief in one set of Adam-and-Eve "original parents"?as opposed to polygenism, the theory that evolution to human form occurred in many places at roughly the same time. Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis in 1950 cautiously left the door open regarding polygenism, pointing out that it "apparently" was not consistent with church doctrine on original sin. But Jesuit Francis McCool of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome says that "the scientific evidence for polygenism seems to have increased," and he feels that...