Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year that saw several valiant attempts at clarifying the gloomy science of economics, Robert L. Heilbroner scored a popular triumph in The Worldly Philosophers. He made the ordinarily dusty trip from Adam Smith to Karl Marx to John Keynes as clear and straight as anyone who ever took up the thankless job. Another popularizer, and a very practiced old hand at the game. Will Durant, showed up with The Renaissance, the fifth fat volume of his story of civilization. As usual, Author Will brought down upon himself the buts and ifs of scholars, but did the period...
...Ever since Eve offered Adam the apple," said she, "men have been unable to forgive us for being the first to discover the delights brought by the knowledge of good and evil. Women's rights is an unpopular theme, especially among mediocre men . . . When we ask for freedom, they call us unfeminine. My God, no. We are so feminine that we are fighting for the survival of our own sex." Seora Formica, elegantly gowned and coiffured, flashed a warm smile. "If we were still in the harems, I'd be the first to enjoy a life of leisure...
...brief can bathing suits get? Is it possible that some day they will disappear altogether? John Adam Zehntbauer, who runs the biggest swimsuit company in the nation, quite naturally thinks not; in fact, he is convinced they have already got too brief. As longtime president of Jantzen Knitting Mills Inc., Zehntbauer has probably done more than any other man to take the female form out of billowing bathing dresses and bloomers and encase it in a tight suit. But Zehntbauer's suits have rarely gone to extremes; with hidden tricks and elastic yarn, they have been designed to help...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Ernest William Barnes, 79, the Church of England's "bold, bad bishop" of Birmingham (until his retirement last May), who alarmed and angered his fellow churchmen for 29 years by publicly denouncing the doctrine of the virgin birth and the existence of Adam and Eve, advocating strict birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of "the unfit"; in Hurstpierpoint. England...
When Stalin died, a long-standing conflict in Soviet policy emerged again to plague the new rulers of Russia, Adam Ulam, assistant professor of Government, told the audience. One faction, probably heded by ousted Security Chief Lavrentl Beris, appears to have favored a genuine relaxation of tension with the Western powers, Ulam said...