Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...images that summarize early theology. The tusks lend the cross an undulating vitality, repeated in the budding motif of the Garden of Eden's Tree of Life, then supposed to be the material of the original cross of Calvary. Taking these themes, the cross dramatically telescopes time, showing Adam and Eve, the primordial parents of man, at the base of the cross as they are at last raised from the dead by the Crucifixion. They seem to emerge from their eons-long sleep in a mood of joyous bewilderment as they clutch at the Tree of Life...
...college has a faculty of 34 (half white, half Negro) and a student body of half a dozen whites and 500 Negroes. "We get some students with good potential, but they are undereducated-if they are educated at all," said Adam Beittel, the white president of Tougaloo...
Christian theologians have often claimed that the Judaism of Jesus' time was decadent, "a world of ossified belief in the letter, of a narrow-minded caste spirit and materialistic piety," as the German Catholic Theologian Karl Adam put it. On the contrary, Isaac argues, the two centuries before Jesus' birth marked an era of great spiritual vitality, which produced both the beautiful writings of the Apocrypha and the flowering of the synagogue as a faith-renewing institution. Many of Jesus' own sayings can be traced to the teachings of the much-abused Pharisees, notably the great Rabbi...
Interestingly, King envisions the ultimate solution to the problem of discrimination neither in direct local action nor in individual law suits. Rather, he believes like Adam Smith in the concept of an "invisible hand," which leads men, in seeking their private good, to achieve the good of the community...
...Either let us practice the democracy we are preaching or shut up and admit that we are the Western Hemisphere counterparts of the Union of South Africa," Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) challenged a predominantly white audience in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...