Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Utopia, maintains British Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing (see BEHAVIOR). The schizophrenic makes a journey into self, says Laing, that is every bit as awesome as exploring a jungle or climbing Mount Everest. He goes "back and through and beyond into the experience of all mankind, of the primal man, of Adam and perhaps even further into the beings of animals, vegetables and minerals...
...ruckus at the last annual meeting and are now ready to begin soliciting proxies for the next one. But General Motors is not waiting. Last week the corporation elected a black to its 23-man board. He is the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who was once assistant pastor to Adam Clayton Powell at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, and more recently has specialized in persuading or pushing U.S. industry to hire Negro workers. His election raises the number of blacks known to be on boards of major U.S. companies to eight...
...went to college, thought that society had twisted and perverted the Biblical role of the sexes: "Pimping goes back to the man controlling the situation before Eve bit the apple, see, and brought him down to her level and stuck the apple in his mouth. She was rebelling against Adam's authority. When Adam let Eve tempt him into taking the apple, he gave up his manhood, and today man is fighting to regain...
...ADAM AT 6 A.M. also concerns itself with youth and Middle America. The son of upper-middle-class parents, Adam flees his plush Los Angeles home for a summer in the heartland. He winds up in Missouri, where he gets a job with a road gang and meets one of those teenage girls (Lee Purcell) who favor pink and pigtails, and announce with pride: "I was valedictorian of my high school class." He falls in love with both the girl and the country, but neither romance can sustain the burden of examination and analysis to which Adam constantly subjects them...
...every Adam...