Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throughout the city: black-white confrontation in a parking lot, murder in a car factory, adultery in a motel. Eerily for me, many of the scenes take place in the shopping centers, auto dealerships and driveways of my home town of Birmingham, also home of the rocky marriage of Adam and Erica Trenton. Adam, the book's hero, is reportedly modelled on GM Vice President John DeLorean, known in the industry as a young Turk because he used to drive foreign sports cars until successive promotions forced him to start driving Chevrotlets. At any rate, Adam and Erica are suffering...
...reject the current revisionist trend and adopt an orthodox stance. He can synthesize the two strands and turn out the definitive work. Or he can borrow a little from each, blur the basic issues, and emerge with a book that seems statesmanlike only because it is so jejune. Adam Ulam took the last choice; the result is his intellectually anemic study, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World...
...York City in the '60s, he staged some experimental pieces off-off-Broadway that used speech and sound "as a contrapuntal device rather than a literal communication form." In one play at the Cafe La Mama, Ellen Stewart's seminal theater of experiment, he dressed a young man playing Adam entirely in Reynolds Wrap. God, looking like W.C. Fields, appeared onstage from the midst of the audience and tore off the foil...
Most of the early advocates of the indeterminate sentence, like other reformers of the period, were men of pronounced prejudices. They prefered Christ to anti-Christ, and for that matter, Christ to Buddha. They found industrial pollution more excusable than prostitution. Most importantly, they prefered Adam Smith to Karl Marx, and believed that ultimately the criminal bore personal guilt for his crimes...
...power ashtrays to malfunction, catalyzing a shake-up in G.M.'s ashtray division, or whether it was the electric blanket that turned savage later that day, grilling the G.M. president in a waffle pattern and creating a top-level vacancy for that bright young product-development exec, Adam Trenton...