Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though Elvis Presley at his prime had challenged Cardinal Spellman to a theology debate on NBC. For in England, mop-haired Adam Faith, 21, is the current king of rock, and last week he argued religion for half an hour on BBC-TV with the Most Rev. Frederick Donald Coggan, 52, Anglican Archbishop of York. Faith proved rather more than the archbishop had bargained...
...term in a state where the Governor cannot succeed himself. After idling away his latest interregnum selling insurance in the hinterlands, 6-ft. 8-in. Folsom faced only one real stumbling block: a redneck notion that he is soft on segregation because he once sipped Scotch with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the executive mansion...
...bill to accomplish Kennedy's first priority, aid to higher education, emerged safely last week from the Rules Committee, and is expected to pass the House. But the rest of Kennedy's program is in for trouble. Manhattan Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, protested what he called "overlapping and waste of money" in the Government's existing $2 billion-a-year education effort, and vowed to "slow up" action on pending bills until an education subcommittee finishes a study next summer on duplication in present programs...
...Adam & Ekberg.. "In a certain sense, the Bible is already a screenplay," says De Laurentiis, who has hired British Playwright Christopher Fry to help him prove it. Unnecessary parts-"the Psalms, for example"-may be cut. But Noah and Jonah will voyage, the Red Sea will part, and Moses will, of course, once again receive the Ten Commandments. Since De Laurentiis feels that "we can only do this once and it had better be right,'' he is in constant touch with the Vatican's motion picture office. Also, he does not want The Bible...
...wrote Lytton Strachey, "in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid." Certainly, in Victorian England, island swelled into Empire, man's origins retreated from Adam to ape, man's progress advanced to antitoxins and turbines. But certainly, too, there was a precipitous drop from Disraeli to pestilent drains or from Darwin to shivering streetwalkers. Characteristically, it was an age of gaslight, which lighted the dark with a baleful glare, but produced furtive, disquieting shadows...