Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the group met at callbacks for the Veritones and Opportunes. After being denied admittance, they decided to form a group of their own named after the place they met, said Adam J. Fratto '90, guitarist and one of the original organizers of the group...
Want to fit in? Wear a tux. Want to hold your head high? Tie a piece of black silk under your Adam's apple. (Clip-ons are permissible -- if not entirely excusable -- only for maitre d's at restaurants that revolve atop the city's tallest building.) Want to -- be honest, now -- leave the party with some new company? Go in grosgrain...
...dingy vestry behind the altar of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in the Paddington section of the city. Across the room, a derelict lies dead, killed in the same grisly manner. In charge of the investigation: the sleuth-protagonist of six previous James novels, brooding Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh, a widowed intellectual who loves baroque music. As he did in such previous cases as The Black Tower and Shroud for a Nightingale, Dalgliesh focuses on himself as much as on the murders; deduction is a voyage of self-discovery. He thinks of himself as the "poet who no longer...
...seminar, Harvard Soviet specialists,among them Joseph S. Nye Jr., Dillon Professor ofInternational Affairs, Adam B. Ulam, GurneyProfessor of History and Political Science andMarshall Goldman, associate director of thecenter, will speak on topics such as Star Wars andarms control, U.S. Soviet relations and politicswithin the Kremlin...
While the DEA was focusing on crack, some news organizations were questioning whether the entire drug-abuse story has been receiving too much attention. The New Republic ran a cover story billed "Confessions of a Drug- Hype Junkie," written by Adam Paul Weisman, a researcher at U.S. News & World Report who worked on that magazine's July 28 cover story about drug abuse. Weisman charged other publications with "blatant sensationalism" for having ignored statistics indicating there is no boom in drug experimentation among high school students; the number who sampled cocaine, he noted, has been oscillating between...