Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a volte face almost breathtaking in its completeness, Mr. Adam's contribution is succeeded by a short story from the ubiquitous pen of Earnest Hemingway entitled "Homage to Switzernot obtrusively so, and is refreshingly brutal. While actually containing nothing but a few sentences of conversation, loosely connected, the tale is singularly incisive and clear cut in the total effect. It comes in welcome contrast to the usual run of magazine effusions...
...floors are pottery household utensils, the remains of food in pots, clay fire-dogs on hearths, flint knives. Red paintings still decorate the walls. Dr. Herzfeld figures that the village flourished 4000 B. C. Just four years before and not many miles away, according to Holy Writ, God created Adam...
...second day of his filibuster Senator Long appeared on the floor in a loose wing collar which gave his Adam's apple greater leeway. To waste time and get a rest, he sent a document to the clerk's desk to be read aloud but Senator Glass, determined to wear out his adversary, objected. Senator Long read it himself, slowly, lingering over each word. "Am I going too fast?" he impishly asked. The Senate was practically empty as he expatiated about decentralizing wealth, remonetizing silver, taxing capital...
Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans. Author Cozzens introduces the strands of New Winton's life through the neat modern medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators are so well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson...
...Bull-Kent School's famed headmaster, Father Frederick Sill. Tall, thin, startled-looking, with thick black eyebrows and black hair. Author Cozzens could pass as much younger than his 29 years. No novice at his trade, he has free lanced since his undergraduate days at Kent. The Last Adam is his sixth book. Others: Confusion, Michael Scarlett, Cockpit, Son of Perdition...