Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FROM THE WORD GO, nomenclature has been a serious business. In the Garden of Eden, filled with anonymous beasts of the field and fowl of the air, it represented Adam's first homework assignment. Juliet found time to agonize eloquently on the subject at great length. Even the famous Broadway lyricist T. S. Eliot `10 treated the concept with respect, calling it "a delicate matter" "It isn't just one of your holiday games," he added "You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter when I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES...
...exquisitely attuned to the anonymity and impersonality of modern urban and suburban life. Paranoia is supposed to be an irrational fear, but who can now say that it is silly to dread that innocent bottle of capsules? -By George J. Church. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Adam Zagorin/ New York
...know that we will want to follow the death instrument in the slowest motion, to see it grasped eagerly or laconically, at last to shudder. So one shudders picturing Stanley and Theresa Janus in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, stunned over the death of Stanley's brother Adam a few hours earlier, the couple sitting in despair at the kitchen table, about to reach for the Tylenol...
...singles featured an all Harvard final, as All-American (in doubles) Adam Beren, also a senior, bested sophomore team mate Dave Beckman, 6-3, 6-0. No sympathy there...
That evening, grief-stricken relatives gathered at Janus' home. Someone offered to go out for aspirin. No need, said Stanley Janus, 25, Adam's younger brother, who had noticed a bottle of Tylenol in the kitchen. He and his wife Theresa, 19, each took at least one capsule. At 8:15 p.m., five hours after his brother died, Stanley was pronounced dead. Theresa died on Friday afternoon...