Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Virginia Johnson is Giselle, the sheltered daughter of a protective mother, and her dancing throughout is that of a subdued girl--partly due to choreography that at times fails to parallel the rising climaxes in Adolphe Adam's music...
Nearly everyone on the Harvard squad got in on the action against MIT. Captain Adam Button scored three goals, while Chris Standaert and freshman Frederick Scherrer also added to the scoring...
...route to an interview with Letitia Baldrige, etiquette author and cover subject of TIME's last major look at manners in 1978, New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin was delayed by a traffic jam. "I ran to a pay phone to explain. Baldrige replied, 'I understand perfectly. I'll use the extra time to gather more material.' With perfect politeness, she had accepted my apology and put me at my ease." Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo interviewed several observers of modern manners, including New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton and Social Critic Fran Lebowitz. She found them grappling with...
Reported by Dan Goodgame/Los Angeles, Carolyn Lesh/ Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York
...Standing Committee on Athletics this week dismissed a proposal for collapsable goalposts by McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Myron B. Fiering '55, because they needed more consideration, according to Adam J. Augustynski '86, a student representative of the committee...