Word: adamic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene of wild incongruity. On a tennis court near the Bimini Hotel one day last week, Baptist Preacher Adam Clayton Powell led an assemblage of curious cronies, touring Seventh-day Adventists and bemused newsmen in what he solemnly described as an interdenominational service. He took his text from Jeremiah 8:4: "When men fall, do they not rise again...
Plenty of Congressmen thought that the heights attained by Adam were pretty dizzying, nonetheless. Missouri Republican Thomas Curtis denounced Powell for "embezzlement and forgery, not to mention such things as scofflaw actions." To objections from scattered Representatives that the censure proposal would constitute "annihilation by humiliation," South Carolina Republican Albert Watson replied: "As far as I know, he is down in Bimini with a glass in one hand and a woman in the other. Can you think a man so calloused would be humiliated...
Natural Resources. "If just once," observed Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons afterward, "Adam had come in and said, I made a mistake,' things might have turned out differently." But throughout, Powell was being-Powell. While the House wrangled over his fate, he spent the afternoon playing dominoes in Bimini's End of the World bar, sipping "cowbells" (milk laced with Scotch) supplied by reporters. "If I'm excluded," he said philosophically, "I'll be happy all the time. If I'm not excluded, I'll be happy all the time...
...from many of his colleagues. There are many more ethical abuses committed on Capitol Hill than the enumerated sins of Powell. If the House is serious about reforming the behavior of its members, it would do better to tighten up its rules rather than illegally venting its wrath on Adam Clayton Powell...
...decision of the House of Representatives to exclude Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., can be interpreted only as a slight to America's Negroes...