Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This said, he form'd thee, Adam...
Most of us are human racists. We think that the world was made for us. Some even think that we made the world (and therefore we can destroy it). Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden because they thought that it was all theirs. God was the first ecological revolutionary...
...rude clapboard of country chapels, the salvation-emblazoned windows of tattered store fronts. It is a montage of impressions, some real, some misleading: the low-moaning spirituals, the clapping and the shouted amens; the phenomenon of a Father Divine and the curious charisma once possessed by the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell; the prophetic, nation-shaking philosophy of a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the pragmatic, neighborhood-building politics of a Rev. Jesse Jackson...
Well, almost anything. In the new off-Broadway show Joy, Brown aims for an evening of theater, applying the beat to a collection of soulful soliloquies -on friendship, time, women, love, Adam and Eve and, of course, joy. Called a "musical come-together," Joy as a stage show has no more plot than a bagful of rainbows. But on a new RCA album, relieved of the need for action and reduced to pure sound, Joy becomes the sunniest original-cast LP of the year, an irresistible fantasia of blues, bossa nova, jazz and mild rock that tumbles beautifully...
Marshalls of the march passed out statements of the group's demands to watchers and pasted women's liberation stickers to buildings along the route. At Faneuil Hall one of the marchers tied a garter to the thigh of Samuel Adam's statue which read "We want day care...