Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expression in the U.S., and the development of policies and procedures best adapted to protect these rights." The great bulk of money spent so far has been on projects that come clearly within the fund's directive. Among these was the $64,000 study by Washington Lawyer Adam Yarmolinsky (TIME, Aug. 29) that, in its presentation of some shocking examples of the federal personnel security program in action, would justify the existence of the fund. Other projects include $400,000 to the Southern Regional Council for offices in twelve states to further "community education in intergroup relations...
...ADAM, WHERE ART THOU? (176 pp.)-Heinrich Böll−Criterion...
...known to U.S. readers for Acquainted with the Night (TIME, Oct. 4, 1954), lacks the power Norman Mailer showed in his first novel, but he wallows in the same mud-and-tears and reaches the same inevitable conclusion, i.e., war is a dirty, futile business. Adam has no heroes, only victims. The time is 1944; the place, principally occupied Hungary, as the mighty Wehrmacht comes apart at the tank sprockets. A panoramic miniaturist, Author Böll paints vignettes that are often sharp and sometimes affecting. A sergeant on a liquor foray for his C.O. finds himself on the shifting...
...depict Adam and Eve (see cut) Brancusi returned not to full-bloom Renaissance goddesses but to woman as a primitive symbol of fertility, and Adam as the product of his primitive tools, axed out of wood with a neck suggesting both a tree trunk and a wine press. In a narrow smoothly polished pebble, Brancusi sees the genesis of the fish form; expanded in his streamlined Fish, done in blue-grey marble, it becomes the prototype of all fish, hovering in space as if water were freshly washing past...
...boyhood's weirder aspects-its imaginativeness, its crazy-paved fantasies. Tom, for instance, is a sleepwalker. His "walks" carry him in and out of time itself. He goes back to medieval days and alchemy. He goes back to ancient Greece, back to the Garden of Eden itself. "Well, Adam," says the serpent, "so you've come back at last . . ." But he has not brought any Eve with him-in fact, Eve is conspicuously absent from most of the trilogy...