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...music are holding firm, however. The Broadway theater is prospering: at mid-November, box office receipts for 1974 totaled $20.9 million, up from $17.2 million the year before. And movies offering escapist fare, like Earthquake and Airport 1975, are pulling in money as they have not done since the advent of television. Variety projects 1974 receipts of $1.65 billion, a shade below the 1946 record of $1.69 billion. Says Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America: "When people are anxious and fearful, they long for the dark comfort of the movie where the 65-ft. screen offers...
...awakening as a neighborhood with a collective identity began in 1969 with the advent of the Community Schools Program; a city-wide program of social services, recreation, adult education and alternative learning run out of neighborhood elementary schools, in this case the Agassiz School on Oxford Street. Consciousness raising continued in 1972 when the neighborhood organized successfully against a zoning variance petition for a high rise apartment building and formed the Agassiz Neighborhood Planning Group...
...growing awareness in the past few years of the mountains of data and statistics that institutions now collect on citizens has given birth to a widespread, though loosely-organized, "right-to-know" movement. With the advent of widespread use of computers, record-keeping by government, credit agencies and schools has become more efficient and comprehensive and more sinister...
Despite the whimsy of this story, sliding down bannisters remains a valid method of athletic expression. Since the advent of the two-story building, human beings have taken to their asses instead of tripping downstairs, great distance runners have borne the name "bannister" in celebration of the rival sport, and the term "bench-warmer" was bestowed on the American language by the particular frustration of second-string sliders who were forced to maintain more orthodox carriages during key bannister contests...
That is where the Second Coming comes in. A new Messiah, who combines Christ and other holy men, must return to father the Perfect Family and redeem mankind physically. And this "Lord of the Second Advent" must be born as a normal man in Korea in this century. Who is he? Moon himself, devotees naturally assume. The Master does nothing to discourage the idea...