Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of Creation as the Bible tells it, says Author Robert Graves, ain't necessarily so. In fact, the Book of Genesis has the story so mixed up that the creation of Eve from Adam's rib, for instance, is really the misreading of a picture of one man killing another with a curved knife (hence the rib) in a quarrel over a woman...
...appears under one name or another in the world's myths and religions. In past books, such as King Jesus (TIME, Sept. 30, 1946), he has taken up arms in her behalf against what he considers the anti-feminist conspiracy of Judaism and Christianity. His latest book, Adam's Rib (Yoseloff; $6), is an effort to rescue another archetype of the goddess-this time Eve-from her subordinate role in the order of creation...
Because he bolted two years ago to support Dwight Eisenhower, Harlem's seven term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell was read out of the Democratic Party and replaced on Tammany Hall's primary slate by a loyal Democrat. But last week Powell was invited back along a flower-strewn path with the special title of "associate" manager of Governor Averell Harriman's re-election campaign. Reason: Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio realized that he needed Powell more than Powell needed Tammany. Running in the primary as an independent, Powell trampled Party Choice Earl Brown...
...Juilliard School of Music President William Schuman, the quartet has scored triumphs in Europe in recent years, built a reputation which rivals that of the U.S.'s famed Budapest String Quartet. The Juilliard's current membership: Robert Mann and Isidore Cohen, violinists; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Claus Adam, cello...
...Budapest, crowds followed the group on the street, eyed Cellist Adam's horse-blanket sport jacket with undisguised awe. The critics pulled out their fanciest superlatives. "A wonderful experience," said one. Added a Budapest composer: "The best string quartet I have ever heard...