Word: advent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White male Harvard students always had an outlet if they sought classist elitism--the final clubs. Though exclusive and generally distasteful, at least these clubs could claim to be an indigenous Harvard phenomenon. Other students seeking a private space could help to explain the relatively recent advent of national fraternities and sororities. The appearance of women's Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma chapters in the last two years was accompanied by a chapter of Lambda Gamma Lambda, a predominantly Hispanic fraternity...
...form developed more than a decade ago, before the advent of graphics-capable computers and printers, Tarr says...
Martin then linked the slave trade to the Talmud by asserting a 1,500-year-old "Jewish monopoly" on racist ideas that began with the Talmud and continued until the advent of Black slavery. According to Martin, the Jewish people carefully nurtured these racist ideas for a millennium and a half until the rest of Europe decided to join...
...sworn in as his country's president today promising a war against poverty -- an effort to provide "dignified living conditions for every Mexican family." The inauguration followed a rough-and-tumble year that saw theassassinations of his party's first candidateand its secretary-general, plus anIndian rebellionand the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 42-year-old, U.S.-educated economist -- speaking before 1,500 Mexican officials as well as foreign leaders as diverse as Vice President Al Gore and Cuba's Fidel Castro --pledged help for the southern Chiapas state, where economic conditions spurred the Indian unrest...
...Johnson observed, feminism is a diverse movement with many dissenting voices. One such dissenter, acknowledged even by Roiphe, is the controversial Camille Paglia. The argument over the date rape crisis was taking place within feminism well before the advent of Roiphe's book...