If we had decided against producing Adams's opera in an effort to not offend audience members, we would have ignored our mission as an institution and community that teaches and enlightens through the wonder and power of the arts.

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles ; the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George ; and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.

He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.

Most of what is known of Adams's ancestry traces through her maternal grandmother, Julia Ann Adams ( née Banker ).

Adams's mother, Annie Kiskadden, was an actress and, travelling with her, Maude spent her early years in provincial theaters, first appearing in plays at the age of nine months when she was carried onstage in her mother ’ s arms.

Only after the writer's death in 1918 did his publisher reveal Adams's authorship although, upon publication, the novel had immediately become popular.

Adams's second novel Shardik concerns a lonely hunter, Kelderek, who pursues Shardik, a giant bear he believes to embody the Power of God ; both of them become unwillingly drawn into the politics of an imaginary region called the Beklan Empire.

The most critically divisive pieces in Adams's collection are his historical operas.

Some experts consider this Adams's most substantial achievement.

Perhaps the most famous line in Adams's draft declaration of rights was this: " All men are born equally free and independent ...." This was slightly revised before being adopted by the constitutional convention: " All men are born free and equal ...."

Though Airy was " abused most savagely both by English and French " for his failure to act on Adams's suggestions more promptly, there have also been claims that Adams's communications had been vague and dilatory and further that the search for a new planet was not the responsibility of the Astronomer Royal.

On October 22, 2009 Swann Galleries auctioned a special print of Adams's most well-known image, Saigon ( General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner Nguyen Van Lém ).

The implications of Adams's actions in appointing Federalists to the Supreme Court and the Federal courts, led to one of the most important decisions in American judicial history.

In late 2006, Sellars organized the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, Austria as Artistic Director ( the festival was part of Vienna Mozart Year 2006 ), and directed there the premieres of Saariaho's oratorio La Passion de Simone and Adams's most recent opera, A Flowering Tree, also in Vienna.

Tales from Watership Down is a collection of nineteen short stories by Richard Adams, published in 1996 as a follow-up to Adams's highly successful 1972 novel about rabbits, Watership Down.

The betting model he employed for delivering transparent odds to his clients was adopted from George Adams's successful Tattersalls totalisator venture.

On the same day that Congress passed Adams's radical preamble, the Virginia Convention set the stage for a formal Congressional declaration of independence.

* In Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the title character saves the world, in part by time-travelling from the present day to distract Coleridge from properly remembering his dream ; if Coleridge had completed the poem an alien ghost would have ' encoded ' certain information within the completed work that would have allowed him to make repairs to his spaceship in the past at the cost of wiping out all life on Earth.

The near coincidence of these events led to some media reports of the asteroid naming appearing after Adams's death was reported, and to assumptions that the two events occurred on the same day, even by those connected to the naming.

This piece is a turning point in Adams's oeuvre, as it marks a return to pure instrumental writing and a re-engagement with tonality.

Adams's votes protected the President's sole authority over the removal of appointees, influenced the location of the national capital, and prevented war with Great Britain.

On 16 September 2008, it was announced that a sixth book would be written, by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer, with the support of Adams's estate.

Nicknamed " Mr Arsenal ", he was honoured by Arsenal with a testimonial game against Celtic in May 2002 with many Arsenal legends playing, including Ian Wright, John Lukic and Adams's fellow back four stalwarts, Dixon, Winterburn and Bould.

Wheeler went on to argue that the failure of the House to pass Gilmer's resolution was a clear demonstration that the house agreed with Adams's statements.

Two weeks later he returned to Lost Highway with Rock n Roll, which featured guest musicians including Melissa Auf der Maur, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, and Adams's girlfriend at the time, Parker Posey.

One of Adams's frequent travel companions was the artist John La Farge, with whom he journeyed to Japan and the South Seas.

Historians consider the treaty to be a great achievement for the U. S., as time validated Adams's vision that it would allow the U. S. to open trade with the Orient across the Pacific.

Both Bill Dana and Jonathan Harris, who Adams appeared with on The Bill Dana Show, also appeared, as did Adams's father, William Yarmy, brother, Dick Yarmy, and daughter, Caroline Adams.

* Henry Adams's novel Democracy ( 1880 ) also deals with political corruption and possible threats to American democracy.

Pop valves derived from Adams's patent design of 1873, with an extended lip.

Adams's father did not at first approve of the marriage, but later approved and shared a mutual respect with his son-in-law.

General Lejeune and others petitioned President Hoover, garnered support in the Senate and flooded then-Secretary of the Navy Charles Adams's desk with more than 2, 500 letters of support.

" Adams's former fan-mail secretary, William Dakota, confirms these claims saying that Elvis was bisexual and that he had a sexual relationship with Adams.

On Adams's somewhat bizarre relationship with Presley ( and Natalie Wood ), see also Alanna Nash, Baby, Let's Play House ( 2010 ).

New York Herald Tribune critic Walter Kerr praised Gower Champion's direction but criticized the libretto and score, stating that " Mr. Champion has been very much responsible for the gayety ( sic ), the winsomeness, and the exuberant zing of the occasion ... he has not always been given the very best to work with ... every once in a while, Michael Stewart's book starts to break down and cry ... Lee Adams's lyrics lean rather heavily on the new " talk-out-the-plot " technique, and Charles Strouse's tunes, though jaunty, are whisper-thin.

After a quarrel with President John Adams over Adams's plan to make peace with France, Pickering was dismissed from office in May 1800.

The decision was reversed by referee John Keaton who was pushed into Adams's superkick by Perez ( backup ref Bronco Lubich made the three-count when Adams surprised Perez with a sunset flip ), thus Keaton DQed Adams and Perez retained the championship, a match which fans felt was a Dusty Finish.

Adams's great grandfather Platt Banker converted to Mormonism, and it is said that the family migrated to Missouri with fellow members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The play had starred Sarah Bernhardt in Paris with enthusiastic reviews, but Adams's L ' Aiglon received mixed reviews in New York.

He was parodied as Mister Different Adams whose catchphrase is " I see comedy as a kind of ..." Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was also a target ; the 1979 Christmas show ( Eric Pode of Croydon's Easter Special ) closes with Peter Jones as his HHGTTG character, The Book, attempting to vilify BBC Radio 4 for broadcasting The Burkiss Way, but in typical fashion he is cut off in mid-sentence.

Response to his output as a whole has been more divided, and Adams's works have been described as both brilliant and boring in reviews that stretch across both ends of the rating spectrum.

On more than one occasion, Adams has been forced to retract or modify an answer when confronted by " the Teeming Millions " ( Adams's term for his readers ), often claiming overwork and staff shortages.

However, there have been subsequent assertions that " The Brits Stole Neptune " and that Adams's British contemporaries retrospectively ascribed him more credit than he was due.

They appeared to listen more to Adams's adversary Alexander Hamilton than to the president.

Most of Adams's works are written for more traditional classical instrumentation, including full orchestra, string quartet, and solo piano.

The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds.