Word: advent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once again the Christmas season. I've brought out the (on-line) Advent calendar. I've annoyed my downstairs neighbors by jigging to "Christmas in Kilarney" (it's a reasonably authentic rendition, too). I've gone Christmas shopping...
...tree has either an angel or a star on top, and these items do have religious significance. There is also the troubling figure of Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas. There is a Christian saint named Nicholas, but he did not live with elves at the North Pole. And while Advent calendars carry the name of the religious season, some contain a Bible verse or piece of the Bethlehem story each day, and some contain chocolates. But this confusion can and should be cleared...
Collaboration is the lifeblood of the musical theater: Mozart and Da Ponte, Verdi and Boito, Strauss and Hofmannsthal. But posthumous collaboration has had to wait until the advent of the phonograph, motion pictures and the camcorder. Today the late George Gershwin can play Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Tilson Thomas, Natalie Cole can sing a duet with her deceased dad Nat King Cole--and composer Philip Glass can write a trilogy of operas with the French author, aesthete and movie director Jean Cocteau, dead since...
...when general HIV testing was first licensed in the United States, AIDS was largely considered a homosexual disease. Although the advent of testing services represented a significant step for those at risk, it also immediately raised issues of confidentiality, according to Mann, who worked at the World Health Organization in the mid-1980s...
...when we note the bitten-apple logo on our computer. Or deeply, as when we heed the words of Jesus, Luther or Freud, all of whom took up the great truths and agonizing questions set out by Hebrew scribes sometime between the 10th and 4th centuries before the advent of Christianity (and inspired by God, traditionalists believe, centuries earlier). Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once told author David Rosenberg, "I am still learning the art of writing from the book of Genesis." The words could have been uttered by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky or Mario Puzo. Dozens died in Israel last month...