Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting bigger. It would be futile to put a frame around The Coming Boom. The book is more like a sprawling by-the-numbers kit used to paint the dome of a new Renaissance chapel. There the enervated finger of post-industrial Adam is about to be plugged into the socket of divine science. One can even find a title for this vaulting masterpiece: CI. It stands for command, control, communications, computing/information and intelligence. Kahn is not too specific about command and control. His discussion of CI other components describes an information network that he believes should enable government...
...killed or wounded. A Red Cross delegation from Beirut said that as many as 1,500 civilians had died in Sidon alone. Israel conceded that more than 100 of its troops had died and that some 600 had been wounded. Jerusalem also announced the death of Major General Yekutiel Adam. He was the highest-ranking Israeli officer ever killed in battle. Syria provided no count of its losses, but they clearly were heavy. Said a Palestinian spokesman: "I saw their positions in the mountains, and they have been slaughtered...
...galliers Saturday were concerned mainstreamers like New York Mayor Edward Koch. Said he: "It's terrific to try to affect the conscience of the world. It's just regrettable they don't have a similar demonstration in MOSCOW." - By Kurt Andersen. Reported ?. White and Adam Zagorin/New York
Last summer, when Adam Osborne, former computer columnist turned entrepreneur, put his Osborne 1 computer on the market, small had never seemed so beautiful. Despite its graceless design-a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3-the 24-lb. machine combined most of the features of a fully loaded Apple or Radio Shack computer. Better yet, it was completely portable. Sales immediately took off, and some 30,000 units have been sold to date. Osborne carry-along machines are already being used in courtrooms (lawyers' briefs can be recalled...
...Hardy suggests the way the world looked to him: a primeval landscape dotted with "wind-warped" thorn, where a hawk circles above a hedgehog in a permanent Celtic twilight. Yet, somewhere on the far horizon of his stories, a tiny solitary figure can usually be found: a latter-day Adam, as lost as on the first day after the Fall-or, more likely, an Eve. The storms Hardy stages on his heath are nothing compared with the tempests of sexual passion that tear at the hearts of these lonely wanderers among the thorns: Bathsheba of Far from the Madding Crowd...