Word: amenability
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...Holy Land. In 1932 Powell's father had a nervous breakdown, and young Adam unhesitatingly took over his pulpit in the emergency. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome man and a spellbinding orator, he was a roaring success; his maiden sermon left the congregation weeping and shouting amen. Five years later, when Adam Sr. retired, his son became full pastor of the church...
...Eastern seaboard states. Last week a couple of high-level comments brought Rocky's name once more to the fore. In New York, Dick Nixon's good friend Tom Dewey warmly endorsed Rockefeller for Vice President, and at his Washington press conference, President Eisenhower added a cautious amen: "If Mr. Rockefeller were nominated, he would be one that would be acceptable to me." But Rocky coldly rejected any such suggestions. "I absolutely, under no circumstances whatsoever, would be a candidate for the vice-presidency," he said before leaving on a Venezuela vacation. "Nor would I accept a draft...
Died. John Harlan Amen, 61, mild-mannered New York and U.S. attorney who used antitrust laws to fight rackets and won more than 250 convictions from 1928 to 1938, investigated corruption in Brooklyn and exposed scores of gangland-tied policemen, judges, lawyers, and three assistant district attorneys, also served as counsel during the Nuremberg trials, then was a Truman appointee to the Federal Loyalty Review Board; of a perforated ulcer; in Manhattan...
...Amen's other self, the darker and deeper one, is best revealed by the large, dramatic print of Adam. In contrast to Michelangelo's noble idealization, this First Man is conceived as a brute. Above his diminutive head, which is dominated by a circle of teeth and a single, piggish eye, he raises a jagged sword. His free hand, meanwhile, hangs ape-like to his knees. Defined in bold line against a blank background, Adam makes a powerful and impressive figure...
...Mother and Child, Amen departs sharply from the traditional Madonna ideal. While the plump infant grasps for her breast, the mother appears gaunt; and the multitude of lines evoking the forms of her collar-bone, neck and face seem to suggest a network of veins to her breast. The hint of despair in her eye reinforces the impression that she is being sucked dry by her thoughtless, greedy child. In its bitter message, stated with subtlety and thoughtfulness, this work provides a revealing antithesis to the view of children implicit in Amen's prettified prints like To Wonder...