Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forth to East Hartford-as well as everywhere else-by plane. Even in the roughest weather, Rentschler merely grunts to his pilot, "Getting a bit dusty outside," then resumes reading memos about engines. Money in the Bank. Fred Rentschler was taught to be single-minded by his father, George Adam Rentschler. Adam's father brought him to the U.S. from Germany when he was three. Orphaned at eleven, Adam had to scratch hard for every penny, scratched so hard that he eventually became a millionaire out of the foundry he started in Hamilton, Ohio. "Only two things are worth...
...Dutch Reformed Church (1,400,000 members) held a synod, solemnly condemned: 1) cremation ("a heathen custom"), 2) commercial radio programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...
...then Mr. Phelps hit us with the third act. The character one had tagged as the Prodigal Son suddenly began to behave suspiciously like Christ; the incestuous brother and sister began to look more and more like Adam and Eve; symbol pressed on symbol and character after character rose to speak weighty and prophetic words. It was too much. The New England family became a group of actors mouthing profoundities; the play, as a drama, collapsed. The gardener, who had previously had the quite sufficiently exalted role of Chorus, began to speak in the third act of "my seasons...
...Green Pastures (by Marc Connelly; suggested by Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun; produced by the Wigreen Company in association with Harry Fromkes) still has an appeal after 21 years. Once again a set of Bible stories, as they appear to a Negro preacher conducting a Southern Sunday-school class, is made living and bright on the stage. The Green Pastures has a storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with...
Last week two new Answer Men began broadcasting, one in Greece (Aftos Pou Sola Apanda) and one in Turkey (Hazircevap Adam). As in every other foreign country, Chapman was warned not to expect the same lively and miscellaneous curiosity he is used to in the U.S. "Europeans are different," he is repeatedly told. Says Chapman: "They don't seem very different to me. One of the questions Europeans ask most frequently is 'Do Indians have beards...