Word: advent
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Which brings us to the return of the single. Back when music was exclusively on vinyl, singles were the medium musicians used to promote and sell songs from their latest albums; not infrequently, they were original works. But with the advent of CDs, the distinction between an album and a single, between a 12-inch 33 and a seven-inch 45, blurred. Since all recorded material now came on a standard CD, the special status singles enjoyed was eroded. Sales dipped; artist interest declined. Says Geoff Mayfield, director of charts at Billboard magazine: "For a while rock acts, particularly alternative...
...perfectly content with my concentration. Good literature is good literature, no matter who writes it. And I'm studying some great stuff. Do I fear that by supporting ethnic studies, I am advocating the advent of a waste-land of academic vapidity, racial separatism and cultural malaise...
...thing, they're less likely to enjoy the benefits of long-term female companionship. A generation or so ago, men sought out the company of women, if only to get their laundry done and hot meals served on time. But with the advent of the drip-dry shirt and the frozen breakfast burrito, it became possible for any fellow, no matter how domestically challenged, to get out of the house on his own. And they have, in droves. The age of first marriage for men has shot up to almost 27, and after divorce it is the man who gets...
...With the advent of popular elections, she sees the role of the vice president as becoming increasingly concerned with substantive issues...
Crossan and other liberal Jesus scholars, he believed, were exploring avenues "subtly contemptuous of the convictions of faith." As long as the debate had been quarantined in the corridors of the academy, he had held his peace. The advent of the Jesus Seminar, however, marked a major outbreak of what Johnson considered a dangerous contagion. "Americans generally have an abysmal level of knowledge of the Bible," he says. "In this world of mass ignorance, to have headlines proclaim that this or that fact about [Jesus] has been declared untrue by supposedly scientific inquiry has the effect of gospel. There...