Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With the advent of the Nixon administration, attacks on OEO-funded attorneys took on more threatening forms. In 1970 Assistant Atty. Gen. William Ruckelshaus accused legal services lawyers of filing "politically motivated" lawsuits aimed at embarrassing the Nixon administration. He charged that some of the agencies were using the courts "as a method for confrontation" with the establishment...
...Army and last year became president of Briarcliff, a women's college (300 students) north of New York City. While arresting the school's academic and financial slide, the protean Bunting produced a second novel, The Advent of Frederick Giles...
Jazz rock is merely the handy rubric. The music itself is one of the most exuberant, rich and versatile brands of pop to come along since the heyday of Dylan and the Beatles. From the flowering of boogie-woogie and swing in the 1930s to the advent of bebop and then cool in the 1940s, jazz has lived and gained new ground through hybridization...
Despite the advent of "coordination," the arts at Harvard remained very compartmentalized, with little academic credit given for students' artistic work. And music, where performance traditionally is nearly all extra-curricular, was the only area of the arts where performances were consistently good. At the top of the long list of stars were Yo-Yo Ma '76, a phenomenal cellist, and Gerry Moshell, most notably as conductor of the Lowell House opera's "Ariadne Auf Nauxos," in his last year as a Harvard music tutor...
...first novel The Lionheads, Josiah Bunting drew heavily on his experience as a U.S. Army officer in Viet Nam to describe how ignorance and careerism were undermining the military. In The Advent of Frederick Giles, set in a tranquil English town thousands of miles from the nearest rice paddy, Bunting proves himself a resourceful sapper in the perennial and usually undeclared war between social classes...