Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loving divorcee" (a somewhat more sophisticated Mary Tyler Moore?), Diana slept in the same bed with a drunken stranger. In NBC's The Girl with Something Extra, E.S.P. is the coyly reconcilable difference between Newlyweds Sally Field (the former Flying Nun) and John Davidson. ABC's Adam's Rib, based on the 1949 Tracy and Hepburn film, claims to inject a touch of Women's Lib, with Blythe Danner and Ken Howard as a lady lawyer and her lawyer husband. Example of feminist viewpoint in first episode: to prove that men are allowed to pick...
...ECONOMY ESCAPES FROM ECONOMISTS. Adam Smith cautioned against tampering with the "invisible hand": the myriad acts of buying and selling that maintain the equilibrium of a free economy. In recent Keynesian years, economists have boldly tried to fine-tune the economy with their own hands. For a while in the 1960s, their experiments seemed to work wonders. Steady growth was achieved without intolerable inflation. Subsequently, their hands began to falter as they clearly lost control. With a modesty not previously associated with their profession, economists admit that, in the words of Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, "The rules of economics...
Rather it is the wide, colorful butterfly version. A man can decorate his Adam's apple with anything from a variegated stripe on peau de soie to a jacquard design on woven silk. A few of the old bowmen, like Soapy Williams, have made the switch. Having turned in the skinny bows he wore as Michigan's Governor (1949-60), Williams, now a state supreme court justice, sports butterflies instead. He insists that they are "more handsome and comfortable than the other kind...
...ADAM NASSAR...
...Were Adam and Eve real people whose taste of forbidden fruit tainted man forever with original sin? Did Jonah spend three days in the belly of a "great fish"? Did the Red Sea actually part for Moses and the Hebrews fleeing from Egypt? Last week in New Orleans, the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod said yes to all those questions. By their votes, the delegates at the biennial L.C.M.S. convention made a crunching and almost unprecedented shift to the right, a shift that promises a major purge at the largest Lutheran seminary in the world...