Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this system started with Adam, it would have meant that Antony would have met Cleopatra all right; but Abelard and Heloise would have missed by one letter, and Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have stood by a balcony, much less a chance...
Critic Winspear, who is director of Chicago's leftish Abraham Lincoln School, got maddest at one of Harvard's suggested reading lists which he said "apparently stopped with the great classics of laissez-faire. From such a list [Adam Smith, Rousseau, Mill et al.] ... no student would ever glean 'dangerous thoughts...
...selecting two red hats for the Red-dominated part of Europe, Pius showed again that he knew exactly what he was doing. Poland's courageous, 78-year-old Archbishop Adam S. Sapieha had shared his people's sufferings and welcomed the Red Army. Hungary's new Primate, Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy, had been imprisoned by the Nazis...
Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy? Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty...
...submit that the problem is not the control of Atom but of Adam. We do not stand in terror of a thing but of ourselves. In this subterfuge of speaking about the Atom we simply give credence to the words of Jeremiah: The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked...