Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus had barely left Newport after talking to President Eisenhower when Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Baptist minister, demanded a presidential audience for Negro leaders, to wit, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Ike agreed, leaving vague the time and place...
...four of Cozzens' books have carried at least one mark of popular recognition-selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club: S. S. San Pedro (1931), The Last Adam (1933), The Just and the Unjust (1942), and now By Love Possessed. Still another novel, Guard of Honor, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1948. Nevertheless, the hardcover sales of all Cozzens' books combined (140,000) lag well behind that current dreary splash in a small-town sex sump, Peyton Place (250,000 copies). The interior decorators of U.S. letters-the little-magazine critics whose favorite furniture is the pigeonhole...
What Fish Are About. The principle has worked remarkably well in Cozzens' books. The Last Adam etched a memorable portrait of a crusty, lusty New England doctor who serves the Life Drive rather better than he does his patients. Men and Brethren features a tough-minded Episcopal rector who copes with the eternal muddle of sin without sentimentalizing the sinner. The Just and the Unjust, the best U.S. novel ever fashioned around the law, focuses on a small-town murder trial; it illuminates both the law's technicalities and its larger meaning, its limitations and its glories (which...
...five different major roles each. All these performances are polished. Miss Holm (young and elderly Eve, Mrs. Lutestring, Zoo, and Lilith) seems a bit uneasy as young Eve clad only in a few leaves, but she is first-rate after that, especially in her denunciatory speech to Adam and Cain, and in Lilith's concluding monologue. Daly (young and elderly Adam, Archbishop, and An Ancient) is also uneasy at first but fine thereafter, particularly...
...Mack Sennett chase, the sultan followed his soldiers. Reporter James Morris, then with the London Times, was at his side. Morris camps his story at the oases of human interest, from Mohammed's legendary prayer ("Honor your aunt, the palm, which was made of the same clay as Adam") to vignettes of Arabs setting their watches by the sun and "sweetening" their beards with incense. There is still only one God and that is Allah, but oil is profit, and Author Morris is happy that he saw Muscat and Oman before its rulers became the Cadillackeys of their fate...