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-- "Mad Men" and and "John Adams" -- will make a run for the Emmy record books as U.S.
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-- "Mad Men" and and "John Adams" -- will make a run for the Emmy record books as U.S.
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To call John Adams's "El Nino" exactly what it is -- an oratorio on Christ's nativity, supplementing the New Testament account with Spanish poems by women poets -- may give you the wrong idea.
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I agree with Henry: calling John Adams the best composer of the past 30 years is silly.
Whoa, and Congratulations! Lisa Hirsch 2008
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Sunday marks the first 2 of 7 episodes of the new mini-series on HBO called John Adams, starting at 8/7c & 9:10/8:10c.
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In light of the series on John Adams, which is a fantastic 8.5 hours, this is even more perverse.
OpEdNews - Diary: Remember Tom DeLaye and Jack Abramoff? I'll Bet Mr. Schaffer, Hopes Not 2008
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Benjamin Franklin Bache, writing in the 1790s, probably our most abusive era, called John Adams a "ruffian deserving of the curses of mankind," which isn't bad.
In Praise of Political Insults Joseph Tartakovsky 2008
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Although the Alien Act was never invoked, the Sedition Act struck a dozen victims, including James Callender, for calling John Adams “a hideous, hermaphroditical character,” among other things.30
Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999
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Although the Alien Act was never invoked, the Sedition Act struck a dozen victims, including James Callender, for calling John Adams “a hideous, hermaphroditical character,” among other things.30
Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999
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Never for a moment did he connect the two ideas of Boston and John Adams; they were separate and antagonistic; the idea of John Adams went with Quincy.
Quincy (1838–1848) 1918
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