Word: advent
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...found their own wives full with child and at the birth discovered the child was a mulatto." But for the most part, explains David Steinmetz, a religious historian at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., "Joseph plays a very small role in Protestantism, aside from cameo appearances in Advent and on Christmas...
...quixotic romance over which the maelstrom of press has swooned. At the story’s center is the love of Ennis and Jack, but it’s a romance with its fair share of grime. Their very first sex scene is as bewildering for its rather sudden advent as its overt hostility. The two know to keep it hush hush: “It’s nobody’s business but ours,” says Jack. When the summer ends, the two go home: Jack to rodeo riding in Texas and Ennis to his fianc?...
...They didn’t have the filters to deal with the advent of pop culture, especially thug culture,” Mayes said...
...international law, Sands said last night. The U.S. recognized that “the Rule of Law would work to put forward American interests all over the globe.” Last night, Sands chronicled what he sees as the dismantling of those ideals with the advent of the “war on terror”—resulting in “the deplorable state of international law in the U.S.” According to Sands, members of the Bush administration have divided international treaties that the U.S. had helped to create into...
...only the rules of dating were as simple today. If we only had to worry about ground phone lines and real answering machines. (Wait, what is an answering machine?) The advent of cell phones, however, has completely overhauled old-school dating etiquette, which has been further complicated by the rise of e-mail, texting, and facebook messaging. Not only must we recycle bulky pagers, but twentieth-century mating rituals are also begging for a make-over...