Word: adventism
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...tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing. Letters led to the "idea," which required structure-beginning, middle, end-and forced the writer or reader out of immediate experience and into an abstracted, objective remove from "group reality." According to McLuhan, the advent of "electrical technology"-radio and records, television and telephones-has changed all that. Man today is returning, through the vacuum tube, to a tribal-type perception, and is no longer tied to rational, sequential modes of thought...
Britain has known for some time that her former colony, now an independent Commonwealth nation, no longer has much strategic significance. Malta's value as a fixed aircraft carrier, situated in the Mediterranean 58 miles south of Sicily, has declined ever since the advent of missiles and long-range jets. As part of their general pullback, the British announced that they plan to remove fully two-thirds of their Malta garrison -or about 2,900 troops-by 1971. Shocked at this desertion, the Maltese argued that the loss of their chief source of income would bring economic ruin, boosting...
...month after the Episcopal House of Bishops censured his "irresponsibility" in matters of doctrine, Bishop James A. Pike, 53, maintained an uncharacteristic silence. "Only God knows everything," he explained at last in an Advent address in Manhattan's St. Thomas Church. "Keeping quiet at some points is a question of knowing one's place before God." Then Pike resumed his place as his church's champion of unorthodoxy: "The church seems to prefer prefab answers. But when we try to erect finalities, we fall into the worst heresy of all-idolatry...
Radio, which was supposed to die with the advent of TV, is not only alive but kicking-80% of it to the sounds of recorded music. Over the past decade, the number of radios in use in the U.S. has grown from 124 million to 242 million, TV sets from 37 million to 72 million. Radio sales during the same period have outstripped TV, increasing from 14 million sets annually to 23 million, as compared to TV's growth from 7,000,000 to 11 million...
...arrive. When they did, he refused to float convertible debentures to finance them, instead used Delta's retained earnings and some modest bank loans. He also ordered a conservative ten-year depreciation schedule instead of the twelve to 16 years that most airlines use. Woolman took the advent of newer, faster, larger airplanes in stride. "I remember when I thought the DC-3 was the biggest plane I'd ever see," he would say. "They all look like whales when you first see them, but you soon get used to bigger and bigger ones...