Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...INDIANAPOLIS STAR: THE advent of "Modern Republicanism" has turned the G.O.P. into a mugwump party without any powerful or appealing national character. By its copy-cat tactics of merely adopting and adapting Democratic principles and programs, it has offered the voters no real opportunity for the kind of change that was promised them...
...Boston impolitely on its ear. Such a concentric society, she reasoned, would appreciate eccentricity. She chartered a locomotive for a picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world's best pictures (among them Titian...
...itself, the jet transport age would not do much to solve the world's problems (military jets are already old hat), except, possibly, to put Secretary of State John Foster Dulles more places more often. But its advent was another milestone in the oldest and most adventurous struggle of all: man's indefatigable drive to conquer his own environment...
...versatility and wide range which the present fluid situation makes possible. The reason for the vast number and variety of the productions Mr. Titcomb enumerates is the freedom from imposed standards of any sort which the Harvard director now enjoys. It is felt by many that the advent of concentration in drama together with strong faculty supervision in the new theater will result in the loss of this freedom. This is why the request for continued student autonomy in productions, so churlishly and peremptorily rejected by the Faculty Committee For The New Theatre, was included in the report made...
Most interesting thing in the seized papers was a L'Express article reporting that since De Gaulle's advent the army in Algeria had purged itself of all senior officers with "liberal" tendencies and had set up Committees of Public Safety in every Algerian commune. Behind these maneuvers, charged L'Express, was a youthful, fascist-minded "college of colonels" whose moving spirits had served against the Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China. From their enemy they were said to have developed an intense admiration for Mao Tse-tung's psychological techniques in controlling villagers. (Algerian rebels...