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Literature at Last (excerpt) December 16, 1980 The Faculty’s sluggishness in adapting its structures to new currents of thought is legendary, so it was a considerable surprise last week when Faculty members voted overwhelmingly to approve an undergraduate concentration in literature—only three millenia since the birth of this field...
...started millenia ago, when two kingdoms ruled the land. The Majesticons focused on outward appearances and judged others based on style. The Infesticons were not interested in material wealth, and concerned themselves instead with knowledge and substance. Then in 1980’s New York, Ignor, descendent of a Majesticon, created robots with the “secret knowledge of flydom.” Now the robots are out to “jiggify the five boroughs.” The epic struggle that ensues will determine the future of hip-hop and, indeed, black aesthetics in general...
...world is miniscule and that Jews were the target of the greatest genocide in world history. Because there are so few Jews left in the world today, maybe we cling to solidarity because we have to. Because our existence depends on it and has depended on it for five millenia...
First, that peace is not something that can be negotiated, because history is not something that can be forgotten. Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat did not reach a "final agreement" because it is impossible for three signatures to numb the memories of decades, centuries, millenia of internecine struggle. Peace can, however, evolve out of stability. We should not force final agreements or accords to those who don't want them, but work towards achieving a world without the terrors of Molotov cocktails, tear gas and fatal rubber bullets...
...year 2000 has always been The Future. Whenever someone talks about The Future, we know it's some time A.Y2K (Anno Millenia). 2000 is a watershed year in our history, our culture and our consciousness--a cause for both hope and concern...