Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memory Lane. So far, the coaxers consist largely of Harlem's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell. Other New Yorkers recall Franklin's five years in Congress, where his absenteeism was to become a campaign issue in 1954. Republican Jacob Javits flattened him in their contest for state attorney general, which prompted Columnist Murray Kempton to write last week: "Roosevelt and his sponsors must hope that enough people remember his father and mother, and have forgotten him." Paul Screvane was much milder. Said he of Frank Jr.: "He is a very decent fellow, but I don't know...
Within hours after Wagner's announcement, the line of applicants started forming. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., boosted by the endorsement of Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, said he was available-"if the right people ask me." Behind Roosevelt stood City Council President Paul R. Screvane, Comptroller Abraham D. Beame, Queens District Attorney Frank D. O'Connor and Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan...
...Back. A lifelong Catholic, Author O'Connor wrote exclusively of ultimate things: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, the old Adam and the new life. But she was a poet of region as well as religion, and in this new collection of nine stories, which belong among the finest examples of American Gothic, she celebrates in Southern guises he old violent dialogue of the demonic and the divine...
Elegant Simplicity. England in the 18th century was caught up in the throes of a classical revival. The digs at lava-overlaid Herculaneum in Italy were uncovering arts of antiquity that the world was seeing for the first time. Architect Robert Adam was recapturing the glories of Greece and Rome in his neoclassic columns and pediments. Wedgwood, too, plunked for the neoclassic against rococo excesses, writing in 1769: "Elegant simplicity-I shall more than ever make that idea a leading principle." He glazed red figures similar to Etruscan pots onto the matte surfaces of his ironlike black basalt ware. Then...
...anecdotal descriptions of lobbies, press, and House personnel, are primarily valuable for random inside information and for Bolling's priceless characterizations: William Colmer's political position "is perhaps slightly to the left of Ivan the Terrible"; Adam Clayton Powell's attention span "has been variously estimated as ranging between forty seconds to two minutes"; the Rule's Committee is "Howard Worth Smith's efficiently run cemetery" and "that contemporary version of a French Bourban soirees...