Word: adamancy
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...Bible is like sex: embarrassment or guilt provokes laughter where the mere humor of a joke might not. Needless to say. The Creation of the World and Other Business abounds with puns on the colloquial uses of "God," "the devil." "heaven," and "hell," as well as references to Adam and Eve's early sex life. The best of the humor is either trivial ("Pull up that leaf!" God admonishes Eve as he prepares to curse her) or virtually slapstick...
...YORK-JEWISH TONE that both Miller and the actors give to a number of the characters seems humorously anachronistic and at the same time strangely apt in the Old Testament context. "Schmuck!" God addresses Adam as he prepares to oust him from the Garden of Eden. Adam himself, portrayed by Bob Dishy as the typical Brooklyn boy, has an endearing pose--hands holding his sides at rib level, elbows jutting directly out--that simultaneously recalls an ape-man and a street-corner adolescent. The angels of Mercy and Death find their modern Jewish counterparts in benevolent grandfatherly Lou Gilbert (with...
MILLER'S EVE FORCES the apple into Adam's mouth--a more violent corruption of innocence than either Genesis or Milton dared to attribute to her. On the other hand, he implicitly justifies her behavior by showing that she has been treated badly by God from the start. This deprivation, however, primarily consists of not being given a penis, and that leads us back to a basically male-oriented view. Like the Bible and Milton before him, Miller presents Woman as the more blameworthy sinner. One can only go so far, after all, in pacifying Women's Lib before losing...
...biology, growth is a distinguishing mark of life; in economics it has long seemed the sine qua non of the good life. Adam Smith argued in 1776 that "it is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labor." Economists ever since have insisted that only a rapid increase in output could lift mankind out of poverty. Politicians of every ideology have dedicated themselves to raising production, to the applause of their constituents...
...late Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the pulpit at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church served as a launching platform for an often influential, always controversial 24-year career in Congress. Now the believers at Abyssinian have elected a new pastor, but he vows to succeed Powell only in the pulpit. "I have no political ambitions," says the Rev. Dr. Samuel Proctor, 51. "A church needs care from a dynamic pastor who has the membership at heart." Proctor, however, has a few involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American...