Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adam B. Ulam, a professor of history and political science, said he believes that little change has occured in the Soviet Union...
There is some deeply mystical power in the names we give things and in the process of naming. God's first act after saying, "Let there be light" was to "call the light Day, and the darkness he called Night." One of his first acts after creating Adam was to bring every beast of the field so that Adam could give them names, "and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof...
...band with a jazz influence, will release a national album in two weeks on Epic records, said Adam Sexton '86, one of the Leverett House proctors who helped bring the local Boston band to campus. Tonight's show will serve as a warm-up for the band's tour this fall...
Soviet experts praised the exchange for cultural and aesthetic reasons, but denied that it will have any political impact. "It is a very pleasing, very significant cultural exchange," said Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Sience...
Archer's hero is Adam Scott, a former British army captain who goes on the run and has trouble crossing borders. The pages turn amusingly, and secret agents from several nations chase the protagonist with vigor and invention. But all this hare-and-hounding is the result of a mixup, and one suspects quite early on that when that nice Captain Scott is given a hearing, it will be the agents who are in trouble...