Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner and his mode of living are Western. Brought up on John Wesley and Adam Smith, he worshiped for years as a Christian, and still devotes several hours a week to robust singing of Christian hymns. But when the militarists took over in the '30s to pursue their dream of empire, Hatoyama accepted it, endorsed it on a tour of foreign capitals, wrote a book praising Hitler and Mussolini. He was not close enough to the team to be completely trusted, so before war's end he was nudged into retirement; but he was not clean enough...
...barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair wishes to have a young one, they first eat of the mandrake (representing Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge), and that whales will let sailors settle on their backs, but dive from under them if they light campfires...
...Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain and Moby Dick. They read The Portable Medieval Reader and the Autobiography of Cellini, studied the economics of Adam Smith and Marx, of Tawney, Keynes and Executive Suite...
...advertising agencies [TIME, Jan. 24]. I feel, though, that Father Davis has overlooked the deeper meaning of the old fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin and the old rule that "the baby has to have a name." The excesses of the advertisers are merely proof that the Biblical injunction to Adam that he give names to the things of the earth is getting harder every...
...have suggested the crime but Adam was guiltier, said the Vatican weekly Osservatore della Domenica in response to a reader's query. Reason: Adam, as "head of humanity," had the greater responsibility...