Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, the leader, a Divinity School student or faculty member, creates his own service. The Worship Committee has written a set service to be used during Advent...
...time to catch the summer rush. With a six-artist show that included half a dozen space-whirling abstractions by Chicago Second Prizewinner James Brooks (TIME, Jan. 21), opening night drew a crowd of more than 600. Says Artist Alfonso Ossorio, whose 8-ft.-by-r.2-ft. abstraction, Advent, dominates the show: "Our idea is to show that the era of discovery and evolution is not over." Judged by one standard, the artists seemed to be making their point: sales for the first week totaled...
Twenty years later, John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brook-line and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley, and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
Despite its iridescent charm and aura of good breeding, the miniature became a lost art with the advent of the cheaper, more accurate, less demanding photograph. In its presence, one expert ruefully noted, the miniature "was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated-even to the fatal point of imitation-and then it was swallowed...
More than 500 billboards, thousands of orange-and-black bumper tags and regular TV and radio announcements proclaimed Graham's advent. In Madison Square Garden, still flavored with the tang of the recently departed circus, huge, fragrant vanloads of flowers were unloaded. For Billy, who calls himself "the Lord's master of ceremonies," carpenters hoisted a towering pulpit. "Every seat will be a good seat . . . There'll be nothing between him and you," a crusade official explained. "We always design it that...