at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about nuclear proliferation — something he became highly knowledgeable about when he and composer John Adams put on “Doctor Atomic,” an opera about the creation of the atomic bomb. Sellars held heads of state in awe. My second nomination is Leon Botstein, p

uly 7, 2008 1776. "I have come to the conclusion, that one useless man is a Disgrace, two are a Law Firm and three are called a Congress". So said John Adams on U.S. Independence. The same applies to Energy Independence in 2008. As the U.S. endures an energy crisis and imports 60%+ of its energy needs, t

tment of women, minorities and the disabled. Mr. Romney warned that Mr. Trump's nomination would be calamitous for the Republican Party and, quoting John Adams, even suggested it could suicidal for the country. Evoking the specter of totalitarianism, Mr. Trump, he said, was amplifying a "brand of anger tha

. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein • Harvard has educated the most presidents 7 (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush and Barrack Obama) • 7 presidents have had law degre

opportunity to hear the enormously exciting music of the American East and West coasts. Gustavo Dudamel conducted City Noir, an orchestral work by John Adams — the Philharmoniker's current Artist in Residence — inspired by the brooding Hollywood melodramas of the 1940s. Antonin Dvorak's ninth and final s

ments are needed—combining technocracy with direct democracy, and upward and downward delegation—if democracy is to zigzag its way back to health. John Adams, America's second president, once pronounced that "democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democ

My father use to say that "history is re-written by the winners." A classic example is the Declaration of Independence itself, the product of what John Adams called Thomas Jefferson's "happy talent for composition." How can you write that "All men are created equal," without freeing your own slaves? Jeff

th in "The King's Speech". I also become Hooper's champion encouraging many to see his early work including his herculean 10 hour HBO mini-series "John Adams" produced by Tom Hanks. Six years later at the Telluride Film Festival Tom Hooper is bathing in the glory of a hysterical standing ovation with Co

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ld remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors," the future first lady Page 17213 EFTA00046724 pleaded to John Adams. "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could." Imagine how much greater a co

u to make. I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors," the future first lady pleaded to John Adams. "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember. all men would be tyrants if they could." Imagine how much greater a co

Canada’s leading research universities. Two former directors of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service—Richard Fadden and Ward Elcock—as well as John Adams, the former head of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), told the Globe and Mail in August that Canada should also ban Huawei from supply