Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shared was the operative word. It applied to the LIFE staff, which was held together by an extraordinary esprit de corps, and it applied to the readers, who had a sense of common participation in human events that nothing else could provide-until the advent of TV. From the start, LIFE took hold of the imagination. Its editors could have been content to let it remain a national scrapbook, but at its heart there was an animal curiosity. As Photographer John Dominis said, "You worked closely with people, individual friends, for three or four weeks, perhaps sometimes three or four...
...scientist noted that prehistorians and archaeologists had previously placed the advent of communication with the Homo sapiens sapiens, which followed Cro-Magnon in evolution...
will give an Advent Organ Recital on Sunday, December 10, at 4 p.m. at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave. He will play pieces by Muffat, Brevi. Verschraegen, the Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor by Bach, and the Partita, Wachet auf by Hugo Distler...
...problem dates to 1950. Life's form of photojournalism and its appeal as an advertising medium were weakened by the advent of television," Louis Slovinsky, manager of Press Relations, said. The magazine's losses were "especially discouraging in light of the upsurge in the economy and the success of other news magazines...
...space." The subjects range from moon landings to miniskirts, from the funeral of Winston Churchill to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Still, there are lapses that may keep the returnee from gaining total touch with contemporary reality. For instance, the hippie movement is encapsulated in 200 words. The advent of ecology gets little more space, while Women's Lib is mentioned only in passing. Given these oversights, a first reading of the publication will undoubtedly provide the P.O.W.s with quite a homecoming shock...