Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great questions arising from man's "ultimate concern" he groups under three headings: Being, Existence, and Life. Man's Being is his essential nature, from which he is estranged as Adam was estranged from Eden. Existence encompasses the situation in which estranged man finds himself. Life is the combination of Being and Existence...
They must, like Adam, have felt the animals to be brothers, for the Cro-Magnon's animal paintings display a range of feeling such as civilized men attribute only to civilized men. To the Cro-Magnons the animals they hunted were fellow spirits, not just flesh...
...Adam B. Ulam, associate professor of Government, did not comment on the pros and cons of the Berlin crisis, but mentioned that he expected some sort of negotiations or conference in the near future on the problem...
...looks like "Edward Gibbon, parboiled," has not opened a book in 20 years, simply lolls in the sea and sun, and only worries how his next meal is coming, culinarily speaking. When the doctored fruit reaches grapefruit-size, Gourmet Joe poaches a fig. "This is how things tasted to Adam," he tells his maid delightedly, "before Eve introduced him to ignobler pleasures and spoiled his palate for ever more...
...like Adam's apple, Wesley's fig has an unforeseen side effect: it is an aphrodisiac. The late naughty-witted Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it is an affair of church and state. Charges of scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls...