Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADVENT OF FREDERICK GILES by JOSIAH BUNTING III 246 pages. Little, Brown...
...York--perhaps her worst offense. She wore diamonds in her hair. She had an affair with an incipiently bad novelist. She wore French dresses, she collected rubies. She let the painter John Singer Sargent chase her all over the gym at Groton, showed up at the Church of the Advent one Lenten Sunday to scrub the steps as penance for what followed...
...closely. At present, the carriers subsidize short hops by taking a smaller profit on them than they do on long flights. That pattern emerged in the late 1950s when the industry shifted from propeller-driven planes to jets, which operate much more efficiently over long distances. Even before the advent of jets, first-class passengers enjoyed extra leg room and fancier treatment literally at the expense of coach passengers, whose fares in effect subsidized the money-losing luxury service...
Kilson's neglect of the existential dimension of black culture leads him to ignore the acceleration of the process of ethnicization in modern society aided by the advent of post-industrial society. This new stage of modernity demands existential response. For most blacks, this existential response is expressed by new self-definition and self-assertiveness in terms of black ethnicity; therefore any holistic and realistic analysis of black culture must not view black cultural uniqueness as a behavior to condemn, but rather as an a posteriori presupposition...
...rationale for the faculty decision is much deeper. Student performance on the National Boards, tests that are supposed to assess achievement in the basic sciences, has dropped from what was uniformly top status for Harvard before the advent of the core...