Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government of Jordan is still officially at war with Israel, and will not permit any Jews to enter the country on the assumption they are enemy agents, Adam Curle, visiting professor of Education, said last night...
...smaller roles, I can find only praise for Mr. David Adam, a profound and sonorous Private Willis; for Mr. Barnet Skolnick, a portly Strephon, made up (for some reason) to look like Franz Joseph Haydn; for Miss Kay Churchill, a veritable Little Mary Sunshine of a Phyllis; and for Miss Sarita Matney, Iolanthe herself, who is a most pleasant and motherly fairy...
...pages by means of air between the lines, tiny type blocks, and large page numbers. The space fraud does not matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast and his lameness, melodramatically, makes him doubly so-Warren still does not trust his own skill). Exalted with a vision of freedom, Adam decides to migrate to the U.S. to fight...
...story is full of events, but little happens. Adam's foot keeps him out of the fighting, so he works for a sutler selling provisions to Union troops, and eventually fetches up on the fringes of the Battle of the Wilderness (1863). There is a violent episode, the sort Warren has written twenty times, in which two men are shown to have the mark of Cain: a Negro clerk has the brand of a deserter on his buttocks, and Adam's employer wears a highly symbolic money belt. And at the end there is an intertwinedness-of-guilt...
...been angling for an invitation to Washington ever since he moved into the presidential palace. Last week, when incoming U.S. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon presented his credentials, he brought with him an invitation from President Kennedy. The same day, Goulart called in Communist Poland's visiting Foreign Minister, Adam Rapacki, awarded him the Order of the Southern Cross-the same decoration that Quadros hung on Cuba's Marxist mastermind, Che Guevara, setting off the furor that in time toppled Quadros. To be sure that no one missed the point, Brazil's Foreign Minister announced that his nation...