Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Creation Room-ovalshaped, with murals of the sun and moon. No. 2 is the Garden of Eden, "where," reads a sign, "Adam and Eve made their great decision." Next is the World Room, with murals inspired by Death Valley, which "represents the lone and dreary world, the testing ground." No. 4 is the Terrestrial Room, "fourth stage on the path to celestial glory, the step before entering the Celestial Kingdom." One of its walls opens onto the fifth room decorated as a luxurious sitting room, with well-upholstered chairs and settees, delicate murals and elaborate chandeliers...
During the New Hampshire primary, Adams bore the brunt of campaigning for his absent candidate, and he is entitled to much of the credit for Ike's make-orbreak New Hampshire victory over Bob Taft. In July, as the Republicans trooped to Chicago for their national convention, Adams was named floor manager of the Eisenhower forces. Up to that time, Ike hardly knew Adams from Adam, but he was impressed by the terse, accurate battle reports sent by Adams from the floor...
...remains in the loving care given the rich golden tapestry of the Virgin's chair; for the rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state the origin of man's sin. In the foreground, is a rich, verdant carpet, carefully observed from nature and painted with the same joyful lyricism that St. Francis of Assisi had seen more than two centuries before in the world about...
...reader's chilling realization that its worldly insights were achieved by a 17-year-old author. It was the most successful book from outside the English-speaking world. The Germans continued to disappoint (Gerhard Kramer's We Shall March Again, and Heinrich Büll's Adam, Where Art Thou?), but other countries contributed moving items...
...Regional group was planned during the Second World War when the United States and the Soviet Union were allies. It was thought that the two countries would have close contact in the peacetime years to follow, but as Adam Ulam, head of the Regional Studies, says, "We were overly optimistic, of course." Instead of preparing men for commerce with the Soviet Union, the study group has been funneling men into the State Department and into education...