Word: adventism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They Can't Win. "Britons today," cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, "lack much of their old self-confidence. The recent advent of a young Queen, the talk of a new Elizabethan era, the dynamic character of a new self-confident Toryism, the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and of time by Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that...
...moviegoer-in a picture that might otherwise have had high muzzle velocity but slight penetration-that he is witnessing not only an animated newspaper headline, but also a plain parable about human rights and the majesty of the patriarchal principle, which, from the day of the cave to the advent of the split-level, has kept the wolf from the door...
Four days later, in the biggest bomb shell of news to rock the nation since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...
Reading Period, Harvard's unique cramming gimmick, will open inauspiciously tomorrow. For many, only the longer morning slumber hours will mark its advent. Others' dreams may be marred, however, by the examination specter and visions of three-hour sessions over blue books in sultry classrooms. Although the examination itself is a necessary evil in the large university, its procedure here seems to be the University's unique anachronism in the Machine Age. The Administration has repeatedly resisted any attempts to make exam-taking less tedious by allowing skilled students to type their examinations in special rooms...
Since the advent of spring is supposed to turn one's thoughts to love, it was more than appropriate that The Renaissance Choir devoted last Friday's concert entirely to songs of love, both of sacred and secular inspiration. Fogg Museum complemented the music with a delightful exhibition of prints, drawings and illustrated books related to the themes or scenes of the songs...