Visiting the alpha Nov 23, 2008
It was a really moving experience, and somehow excruciating, to think that a man so full of life in every way, a man the contemporary historian Henry Adams called "pure act," could ever actually die. I could not look at the bed for more than a few seconds. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Washington Novelists Ponder Obama Nov 15, 2008
The "Washington novel," an enduring genre that includes such classics as Henry Adams' "Democracy" and Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent," has inevitably changed, but in the next few years it may change profoundly. Authors cite not just Obama's ethnicity, but his youth and his bearing. (W-USA News, DC)
The Real Crookedest Street Nov 13, 2008
At the traffic circle, take the second exit, which is Henry Adams. Henry Adams becomes Kansas Street. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Action shots, flexible glass and towering spaces Nov 13, 2008
Both will be at the design center, 101 Henry Adams St., San Francisco. They cost $100 and $500 per ticket, respectively. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Secret of Obama's Success Oct 28, 2008
It is a message of fundamental unity and good will, at a time when politics often resembles Henry Adams' mordant description: "the systematic organization of hatreds." And it has worked especially well for Obama for several reasons. One is that, as the son of an African father and a white, Kansas-born mother, he embodies the diversity of America. (Townhall.com)
Shackleton's unfinished business Oct 25, 2008
Expedition members Henry Adams, Will Gow and Henry Worsley take a break from training in Greenland ... They are about to leave London, accompanied by Henry Adams, the great-grandson of Jameson Boyd Adams, who was the meteorologist on the 1908 journey ... Mr. Gow then found Henry Adams, who had trekked across South America and long dreamed of replicating the adventures of his great-grandfather, the Nimrod meteor- ologist. (Globe and Mail)
Historian Theodore Roosevelt Oct 11, 2008
Nineteenth century America produced several important historians- George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, Henry Adams are prime examples. But a young student, naturalist, politician, hunter, and boxer from New York City might be considered to join that exhalted group. (Suite101.com)
Choosing the Right Role Model Oct 7, 2008
In "Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness" (Yale University Press), Joshua David Hawley, 28, a former clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts, demonstrates that TR, far from being, in Henry Adams' acerbic description, "pure act," was a man of many complex ideas. Some were admirable; many were repellant. (Townhall.com)
For this composer, one opera won't do Sep 14, 2008
Wheeler's second major stage work - and his first full-length opera - is "Democracy: An American Comedy," a tale of romance, power, and greed set in the nation's capital during the Grant administration, with a libretto by Romulus Linney inspired by the novels of Henry Adams. It was commissioned by Domingo's Washington National Opera and its 2005 premiere was well-received. (Boston Globe)
Ex-executive gets 57-month fraud sentence Sep 12, 2008
U.S. District Judge Henry Adams ordered him to pay $1. 9 million in restitution, much of which will likely come from property he ordered seized from Leins. (Florida Times-Union)
The world will remember this brave professor Jul 26, 2008
Not to argue with Henry Adams, the 19th-century historian, novelist and academic, but former Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch got a pretty good idea during the last 10 months of his life. Dr. Pausch, who died of pancreatic cancer yesterday, was a popular faculty member on the Oakland campus, but it was his poignant last lecture, delivered to a packed auditorium in September, that reached a worldwide audience. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Academe Then and Now Jul 23, 2008
Being a Virginian, he was a devotee of Jefferson's, but he assigned me to read, among other works, Henry Adams' "History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison.". That would be Henry Adams, the great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy, son of Charles Francis Adams, and naturally enough a thoroughgoing critic of everything that Mr. Jefferson, his great-grandfather's nemesis, ever thought, said or did ... Henry Adams' beautifully crafted words - his... (Townhall.com)
Second hearing for Carter Jul 15, 2008
One hundred years ago, historian Henry Adams, in explaining his "Law of Acceleration," observed that technological change occurs at an ever-quickening pace throughout history. Today, change occurs at such blinding speeds that the rise and fall of technologies and nations happen in a single lifetime. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
America's next chapter Jun 25, 2008
America's next chapter - International Herald Tribune. The novelties of race and gender have largely distracted the nation from the more profound aspect of the 2008 presidential election: This campaign presents the potential for a new cycle of American history. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Emancipation Day: Let freedom ring May 24, 2008
As Henry Adams noted, The Emancipation Proclamation has done more for us than all our former victories and all our diplomacy. Giuseppe Garibaldi hailed Lincoln as the heir of the aspirations of John Brown. (Thomaston Times, GA)
'A teacher affects eternity' - Appreciation Day today May 8, 2008
As Henry Adams said, A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Calhoun City Schools recognizes that all of our educators (teachers, administrators, secretaries, bus drivers, food service workers, all of our support staff) truly influence the young minds of our students, said Calhoun City Schools Superintendent Dr. Michele Taylor. (Calhoun Times, GA)
Protein protects embryonic stem cells' versatility and self-renewal Mar 24, 2008
Co-authors with Majumder are first author Sanjay K. Singh and Mohamedi N. Kagalwala, both from M. D. Andersons Department of Cancer Genetics and the Center for Stem Cell and Developmental Biology; Jan Parker-Thornburg from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Henry Adams from the Department of Cancer Genetics. Majumder is also affiliated with M. D. Andersons Department of Neuro-Oncology, The Brain Tumor Center, and the Center for Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, as... (EurekAlert!)
Telling off other peoples children is everyones duty, says Cameron Feb 5, 2008
Henry Adams, Manchester, UK. Have your say. (Times Online)
Career Produced an Elegant Design Feb 3, 2008
"Before Viktor, if you fell off your mower you were basically mincemeat," says Henry Adams, a professor of American art at Case Western University in Cleveland and author of two books on Mr. Schrekengost's life and art. "He's one of the most versatile artists of the 20th century.". (Wall Street Journal)
Boy Soldier Defends His Book Jan 31, 2008
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Boston: the receptor city on a hill Dec 10, 2007
Now, like the mummified remains of the Egyptian pharaohs, the artifacts of our bygone triumphs clutter up museums, like the Peabody Essex, or adorn musty, unread memoirs, like "The Education of Henry Adams." Who he. As recently as a hundred years ago - only a Bostonian could write that sentence - Boston lorded over American culture. (Boston Globe)
The Schlesinger Diaries Nov 28, 2007
"The historians with whom I feel intense sympathy are those like George Bancroft and Henry Adams who abandoned academic life for the world of affairs.". And abandon that life he did, with alacrity, the very moment Adlai Stevenson summoned him to write speeches and counsel him in the first of two futile runs for the presidency, in 1952. (Forbes -- Markets)
Book review: American Creation Nov 28, 2007
Henry Adams once observed that a chronological survey of American presidents might suggest that Darwin got it exactly backward, and many students of history have come to see the founding fathers as a generation of demigods whose like will never be seen again demigods who magically devised a set of ideas and institutions that would eventually become a blueprint for democracy around the world. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton these members of the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Unraveling a Raveled Sleeve Nov 26, 2007
A hundred curious readers have written to ask the same probing question: Is a worn sleeve raveled or unraveled. Old copy editors never go hungry. (Human Events Online)
Novelist Rebecca West Nov 4, 2007
Aged 38, West marry Henry Adams, a banker, and lived in a country manor in Buckinghamshire. During World War II, she published Black lamb and Grey Falcon, a journal and history of Yugoslavia. (Suite101.com)
Scientist James Watson flies home after Oct 21, 2007
Henry Adams, Manchester, UK. the guy's 79, he's apologised, if he meant the things he said then he wouldn't have, lets just call it a senior moment. (Times Online)
Is Harlem losing its identity? Oct 9, 2007
"I have a fear that very soon Harlem will cease to be the seat of African-American political power," said historian Michael Henry Adams. "There is not a single district below 125th Street that has elected a single African-American representative. None. If Harlem becomes a majority white community we will never see another Charlie Rangel or Bill Perkins again.". (Newsday -- New York City)
JIM DODSON: No Friend Like an Old Friend Oct 7, 2007
"The Indian Summer of life," wrote New Englander Henry Adams, "should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in depth of tone -- but never hustled." So I'd been. advertisement. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Admire a Gothic cathedral and abbey in France Aug 4, 2007
In 1904, American historian Henry Adams privately printed a classic book that he called Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, after the two signature sites of his thesis: that the older Romanesque architecture celebrated the masculine, martial virtues of St. Michael, while the newer Gothic style worshiped the "eternal feminine" of the Virgin Mary. Most of the major cathedrals of northern France are called "Notre Dame" - "our Lady." Notre Dame de Chartres is the ur-cathedral, the one used everywhere as... (AZCentral -- Travel)
Read more... Jul 30, 2007
But as author Henry Adams once said, "A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.". On Monday, when asked on national television to name his favorite teacher, Democratic presidential candidate and 1979 Punahou graduate Barack Obama chose Mrs. Hefty, his fifth-grade teacher, for her power to make "every single child feel special.". (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
W. EDWARD CHYNOWETH: How one man tallies up women's wins and losses Jul 7, 2007
By 1900, Henry Adams' female friend explained "why the American woman is a failure" by retorting, "Because the American man is a failure!" Thus, de Tocqueville's prediction for "sex equality" had come true: "weak men and disorderly women."Meanwhile, aggrieved feminist professors stretch their tired lexicon to note the value of sports in rearing boys to manhood, and then apply it equally to girls, never mind the incongruity. Their problem is that, despite feminism's avowed goal of (sterile)... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
WHEN YOU WISH TO SPY AN ALL-STAR Jul 6, 2007
Former Zito fling Alyssa Milano is hosting a private party Sunday night at the Galleria, and celeb-gawkers can line up around 9 p.m. outside the Henry Adams Street club to catch invitees Derek Jeter of the Yankees, Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox and talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel stroll the red carpet. For eating out, visiting ballplayers usually rely on recommendations from buddies on the hosting team -- Postrio, PlumpJack and Asia de Cuba at the Clift Hotel get some love around the league --... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Grub Street years Jun 16, 2007
Henry Adams, the direct descendant of two presidents and at that time a witness of his father's embattled ambassadorship to London, wrote in his celebrated memoirs that Marx was almost the only friend that Lincoln had, against the cynical Tories and the hypocritical English Gladstonian liberals. Surveying the grim landscape of the English industrial revolution, he wrote, in The Education of Henry Adams, that it "made a boy uncomfortable, though he had no idea that Karl Marx was standing there... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Blog: --> Save a few bucks May 19, 2007
C. Henry Adams & BIE. Commenting is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. M-F. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Move over, Oprah May 6, 2007
A state as steeped in politics and history as this should also consider Henry Adams's "The Education of Henry Adams," John Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage," and the histories of Samuel Eliot Morison, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and David McCullough. Roger Tory Peterson published his beloved "A Field Guide to the Birds" while a teacher in Brookline. (Boston Globe)
Show appreciation for teacher May 1, 2007
American author and historian Henry Adams (1838-1918) once said, ``A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops. Like many people, Adams, the grandson of the sixth U.S. president, John Quincy Adams, thought of teaching as one of the most important jobs a person can seek. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
'Age of Betrayal' Apr 30, 2007
"Nowhere did eastern settlements touch the western," Henry Adams writes in his history of the United States during the first administration (1801 1804) of Thomas Jefferson ... 18] Henry Adams, History of the United States During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1 (New York: A. & C. Boni, 1930), pp. (USA Today -- Money)
Technobuddy: Save your money Apr 29, 2007
C. Henry Adams & BIE ... C. Henry Adams & BIE. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates Apr 21, 2007
Henry Adams, in his discussion of our third president, had some boyhood reminiscences of the widespread hero-worship of naval officer Stephen Decatur, and other fragments and shards showed up in other quarries, but a sound general history of the subject was hard to come by. When I asked a professional military historiana man with direct access to Defense Department archivesif there was any book that he could recommend, he came back with a slight shrug. (Ocnus.net)
Crowe talks to Kidman on Oprah Feb 27, 2007
" This champagne and chocolate get-together drew an unusually exotic crowd. ... Al Roker, the Zagats and Zabars are honoring the 60th birthday of chef Lidia Bastianich at Chelsea Piers tonight. Top chefs have blown their white toques preparing a tasting menu. This also benefits the Careers Through Culinary Arts Program. Call 212-987- 47111 ... Also today, a Mardi Gras lunch benefiting the Historic Harlem Parks Coalition and Central Park at Doubles with Michael Henry Adams the star... (Variety)
An enigmatic Adams Memorial Feb 17, 2007
It was commissioned by historian, writer and presidential descendant Henry Adams as a tribute to his late wife, Marian "Clover" Adams, who committed suicide in 1885. Where the public Shaw Memorial is heroic, eloquent and realistic, the private Adams Memorial is contemplative, enigmatic and almost abstract. (Washington Times)
SOPHISTICATED LADY Jan 22, 2007
" This is the life Dodie Rosekrans may have unique style, but she has some favorite haunts, here and abroad, that help her enjoy the luxe life. Here they are: San Francisco Shopping Susan, 3685 Sacramento St., for high-end fashions. Twiga, 3333 Sacramento St., sophisticated African tribal jewelry and wares. Furniture Ed Hardy Antiques, 188 Henry Adams St., antique furniture and arts gallery Hedge Gallery, 48 Gold St., midcentury modern furniture. Paris Shopping Mina Poe, 19 Rue Duphot, upscale... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Translated work is romp through a mysterious garden Jan 1, 2007
As Henry Adams observed of Italy in 1905, "Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.". Joseph Conte is a professor of English at the University at Buffalo. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
