Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern members of the House are in a dilemma about blocking Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell from a committee chairmanship because they don't want...
...main hall opposite the broad winding stairway held Rodin's mighty and miserable Adam, an 8-ft.-high study in human splendor and spiritual loss. Opposite him, Maillol's Chained Liberty strainingly strode. Scattered about the palatial apartments were figures by Archipenko, Zadkine, Zorach, José de Creeft, Koren Der Harootian, Nathaniel Kaz, Viani, and Reg Butler. The study contained a miniature judges' bench in rosewood, serving as a pedestal for eleven Judges and Advocates by Daumier. In the garden Antoine Bourdelle's huge, agonized bronze Warrior hacked and thrust...
...started his seventh decade on the job, Ingram and I.L.N. were still in fine fettle. Circulation hovered around 500,000, and the magazine had just plowed $1,500,000 into a new printing plant, moved its twelve staffers into a handsome new building on John Adam Street. Last week, as carpenters were putting the finishing touches on his office, Sir Bruce was without a desk for the first time in 60 years. "Not that it makes any difference," shrugged a staffer. "He never was the kind of editor who could sit at a desk...
...York Negroes the borough presidency is a prized possession-and one they do not intend to relinquish easily. In the early days of the Jack investigation, even Harlem's U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who once denounced him as "chief Uncle Tom on the Tammany plantation," expressed his faith in Jack's "integrity." But by last week Powell seemed less worried about what might happen to Jack. Said he: "I have absolute confidence that the New York Democratic Committee . . . will replace Mr. Jack with a Negro if he has to resign." And at week's end Tammany...