Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike Nichols' musical The Apple Tree, the biggest laugh came when the naked Adam bit the apple-and instantly snatched a towel to his loins. In a sense, all of Director Nichols' work, from Virginia Woolf to The Graduate and Catch-22, has included the same scene: knowledge precedes shame. On the surface, Nichols' new film, Carnal Knowledge, is an unfettered sexual farce. But the subtext carries the chill of fastidious puritanism: sex is dirty; touch it and you get a disease...
...name only a few, are former TIME correspondents or writers. So are Editor T George Harris of Psychology Today, syndicated Newsday Columnist Nick Thimmesch, Michael Demarest, an editorial executive at Playboy, New Yorker Writers Calvin Trillin and John McPhee, Alvin M. Josephy of American Heritage. The pseudonymous financial analyst "Adam Smith," author of the bestselling The Money Game, wrote for our Business section under his real name, George J.W. Goodman, before becoming editor of The Institutional Investor. Syndicated Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber is a former TIME researcher and correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau...
Based on a libel suit that the author actually faced in England over a sentence in his third novel, Exodus, the book pits a Gentile Polish doctor, Adam Kelno, against a famous American Jewish novelist, Abe Cady. During World War II Dr. Kelno was forced to practice medicine in the infamous Jadwiga concentration camp. He sues Cady for libel because of a sentence that strayed into Cady's blockbuster novel, The Holocaust, which casually charges Kelno with performing "15,000 or more experimental operations without use of anesthesia." The surgery involved sterilization and mutilation of sexual organs. After setting...
...University Symposia, open to the public: 1) "The Future of Sino-Soviet Relations," in Paine Hall. With John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History; Richard E. Pipes, professor of History; James C. Thomson, lecturer on History, and Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government. 2) "Politics 1972: The Road to Conventions," in Lowell Lecture Hall. With Osborn Elliott '46, editor of Newsweek; Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46, Massachusetts Representative; E. J. Kahn '37; and Lawrence E. Spivak '21, producer of Meet the Press. 3) "CostInflation in Higher Education: Effects and Prospects." in Harvard Hall 104. With William L. Bruce, vice...
Into this comforting, wan world of theological thought came Reinhold Niebuhr, loosing the sobering wind of "Christian realism." Original sin stemming from Adam's fall was to be taken seriously but not literally, said Niebuhr. Man's great sin was willful pride, a universally "entrenched predatory self-interest" that exists in everyone, "benevolent or not." To ignore this basic reality-and man's need to struggle constantly against it-could only lead to moral and political confusion. The individual, Niebuhr contended, cannot excuse his immoral actions by "attributing them to the actions of others, even though there...