Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roman Catholics, he pointed out, cannot accept the opinion that all mankind was not descended from Adam or that the biblical figure of Adam really represents "a certain number of first parents." Such a position cannot be reconciled with the church's doctrine of original sin, "which proceeds from sin actually committed by an individual Adam, and which through generations is passed on to all and is in everyone...
...persistent will get the hang of it. Spaceman's hero may live in the 22nd Century, serve as third mate on a 200,000-m.p.h. Earth-to-Venus spaceship, and burble endlessly about ray guns and spaceports, but Lancelot himself is an old standby. Adorned with an "oversized Adam's apple, ears like a loving cup's handles, and a grin like a Saint Bernard puppy," Lancelot is that time-tested hero, the gangling young whippersnapper who loves to tinker-and more often than not tinkers his way to a fabulous discovery. With the greatest of ease...
...morning last week 126 bearded, bedraggled men in faded overalls and cheap suits crowded round the door of La Guaira's Interior Ministry. The night before, just 42 days after leaving Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, they had disembarked from the tiny, 75-year-old schooner New Adam to the Venezuelan shore and a new life in the new world...
...Adam and Evalyn (Rank; Universal-International) is a British movie cut to an old Hollywood pattern-not a very good pattern by the standards of moviemaking on either side of the Atlantic. A dashing young society gambler (Stewart Granger) promises a dying buddy to take his daughter out of an orphanage and give her a home. The girl (Jean Simmons) is an ungainly waif who takes Granger for her father. He finally sets her straight and packs her off to a Swiss finishing school, which returns her to him as a glamorous dish. She consents to marry...
...ADAM L. LINDSEY Brownwood, Texas...