Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups of students working under the direction of Abram Chayes' 43, professor of Law and former legal advisor to the State Department, and Adam Yarmolinsky, professor of Law and former undersecretary of Defense, will also conduct research on the constitutionality of the war, the Cambodian invasion, and the assumptions behind foreign policy...
...group of 13 senior Faculty members are all men with connections in Washington. Many were advisors to advisors to previous administrations. They include Dean May and professors Francis M. Bator. Edwin O. Reischauer, Richard E. Neustadt, George B. Kistiakowsky, Seymour Martin Lipset, William M. Capron. Michael Walzer, Adam Yarmolinsky '43, Gerald Holton, Conrad Bloch, Thomas Schelling, and Edward M. Purcell...
History, as Adam Ulam of Harvard observes, may have vindicated Lenin's tactics, but it has also repudiated his hopes. History has also affected his contemporary relevance. If his criticisms of bourgeois society retain a certain validity for many, his remedies have proved worse than the ills they are intended to cure. Beyond that, the viability of Lenin's thought has been affected by social changes he did not, indeed could not, account for. Like many another Marxist, he grossly underrated the productive vitality and capacity for change in what he considered a moribund capitalist world. Lenin also...
...world's first drama occurred in the Garden of Eden with only two characters onstage, and they decided that paradise was well lost for love. To a degree, this is the same conclusion reached by a latter-day Adam and Eve in a delightful one-acter called Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr. Kooning...
WHAT we are living is less than life. As with Adam, when he lay fully formed yet lifeless, we need the breath of life. The breath of life, that inspiration, can only come from people who are truly living...