Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To James Meredith, 34, Negro civil rights activist and contender for the vacant congressional seat of Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell; and Mary Wig gins Meredith, 30: twin boys, their second and third children; in Manhattan...
Caesar's Wife. The House code, on the other hand, was devoted more to extolling virtue than to ensuring it. An outgrowth of general indignation generated by ousted Congressman Adam Clayton Powell's propensity for public sin, it suggests that House members conduct themselves "in a manner which shall reflect creditably" on the House, and that a Representative accept no compensation for using his influence improperly. It called for a review of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, under which no one has been convicted since its passage in 1925. It also asked members to list firms in which...
...protests were originally ignited by the government's closing of Dziady, an anti-Czarist drama by Adam Mickiewicz (TIME, March 8), but they soon broadened into general dissatisfaction with Gomulka's Soviet-style rule. Spreading from Warsaw, unrest and demonstrations broke out in eight other cities. Students who had started by chanting "Dziady!" were soon crying "Gestapo!" at police and cheering the generalized thaw in Czechoslovakia...
Wesker's two lovers-symbolically named Adam (Paul Roebling) and Beatrice (Barbara Hayes)-begin in winter. They are weary, wary, and thirtyish. Their minds are haunted by the ghosts of mangled marriages and past lovers, betrayed and betraying. Having died several times from the internal wounds of love, they do not want to start "all that again." But Eros is a bully boy, and they...
Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, countered: "The last time I encountered this argument was from William Buckley, who was complaining about the lack of followers of Adam Smith in the economics department at Yale...