Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides Ali--Columbia's third leading scorer a year ago--the losses come mostly from the defensive front line. Center fullback Kurt Swanback and outside fullback Steve Cafiano have gone as has back Adam Suttner, who dropped out of school. To make up for these losses, Columbia plans to make some eye-opening changes. These position switches reflect the Lion's depth at midfield, as well as the fundamental soccer skills of Columbia's front-line players...
...that solid showing will be the performance of Adam Dixon. The team captain and a great athlete, Dixon is not a distance runner per se. Last year he burned up tracks across the East Coast in middle distance events with a powerful finishing kick, and it will be interesting to watch his conversion to the longer distances of the cross country season. Based on talent and potential alone, his coach is already expecting him to be the team's top finisher...
...critics have often used that theme to test an author's seriousness. Then, by shunning love in all of its disguises, he banished another of the four characters of Western literature's primal cast. God was gone, Eve was gone, and Hector had left himself with only Adam and the snake. Yet, rejoicing in that narrow range, he fashioned a comedy of manners that looks to be enduring...
Storytellers, like journalists, have never been much for emphasizing the sweet, the decent, the well behaved. Odysseus, to pluck an early example from Homer, was a wife-neglecting troublemaker if there ever was one. Even in the inspired stories of the Bible, people seldom behave very well, beginning with Adam and Eve and proceeding to Cain and Abel and the folk in Sodom and Gomorrah. Contemporary fictions create their own mischief: Portnoy, for example, spends precious little time collecting for the United Fund...
...dues, were said to be worth the equivalent of $200,000 in subsidies and perks over a member's lifetime. One side benefit: a generous allotment of Centre Court tickets that could be scalped for up to $1,200 apiece before the finals. Summed up London Observer Columnist Adam Raphael: "There is no reason why the members of the All England Club should live off the backs of English tennis players...