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Word: adams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division of Germany into nations, one free, one Communist. Fearful of changing the status quo in Germany but equally fearful of doing nothing, statesmen of a dozen nations are today earnestly reexamining solutions to the problem proposed by ingenious men ranging from Poland's Communist Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki to Britain's Sir Anthony Eden. For a concise guide to these past proposals and the future possibilities, see FOREIGN NEWS, What To Do About Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

RAPACKI FEVER," said a prominent West German last week, "is everywhere these days." The symptoms of Rapacki fever-named after Red Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki-are: 1) loud protestations that something must be done at once to "relieve tensions" in General Europe; 2) the conviction that the prime source of these tensions lies in the present divided condition of Germany. Victims of Rapacki fever assume that there is little hope either for the U.S. to "roll back" Soviet forces from Eastern Europe or for the Russians to drive U.S. forces out of Western Europe. So they proclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT TO DO ABOUT GERMANY?: The Rise or Rapacki Fever | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...taken by, Joshua's invading Israelites when they seized Hebron." But either deliberately or through ignorance, he read the tablets in the wrong order and with the wrong cast of characters. This resulted in various anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from Adam's rib-"equaled in perversity only by the post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Robert's Rib | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

First, according to Graves's reading of the Hebron chronicle, comes No. 5-not God discovering a hiding Adam and Eve, but a man named Agenor finding his twin brother Belus making love to a girl named Hebe. The fig-leaf episode (No. 4) is the surprised lovers guiltily covering their nakedness, during which Hebe falls for Agenor, and in No. 3 is advised by the Serpent Death to give Belus an apple from the Serpent's tree. The apple drugs Belus into unconsciousness (No. 2), whereupon Hebe tells Agenor to finish his brother off, which he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Robert's Rib | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Whether or not the rib was Adam's-it is certainly Graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Robert's Rib | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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