Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable." In case anyone misses the message, the pamphlet closes with a photo of a towering mushroom cloud...
...screen, Balanchine's dancers moved with an agile, flowing grace. Adam and Eve (Jacques d'Amboise and Jillana) performed an erotic pas de deux that eloquently argued for their eviction from Eden. There was tragedy-Lucifer being consumed by vanity and ambition. There was comedy-Noah and his tipsy wife got in a domestic squabble. And there were the mournful Te Deums of the Columbia Chorus...
...Baptist-run Broadman Press published Elliott's The Message of Genesis, an exegetical study of some of the more cautious judgments of other Protestant Biblical scholarship; for example, that the Flood covered only a few miles of the Middle East rather than the entire world, and that Adam might well be a symbolic term for all mankind rather than a specific human being. "This sort of rationalistic criticism." rumbled Houston Pastor K. Owen White, "can lead only to further confusion, unbelief, deterioration and ultimate disintegration of a great New Testament denomination." But not every Baptist preacher was happy about...
Most of the defects of the lecture system are not irreparable, and it must be realized that all systems of teaching can be abused Although one defender of the discussion group may find that "the ingenuousness, the insight, the mad spontaneity of freshmen discussing Hobbs or Adam Smith or Burke is like nothing else in the realm of discourse," a large number of sections tend to be dominated by glib, superficial people...
...Ever since Adam," said the platinum blonde in the sequined sheath, "man has been the leader and woman has followed...