Word: millenia
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...take it for granted that what is good and works for us can be the same for others. Perhaps But we must not forget that others have to work within constraints placed upon them by millenia-old traditions--in all their enchanting beauty and painful inertia--and by often unyielding natural environments, constraints not so familiar to us. In such constraints, the purely modern ideals of free market and individualism may mean that some individualism flourish while may needlessly suffer their ways towards the equilibrium known as death. This is why, in the absence of any comprehensive alternative...
...Innocence? the dawning of the New Ignorance?), yet perhaps we must wait and see what kind. Suddenly, East and West face new, even more pressing choices as gulfs deepen and dichotomies grow more sharply defined. Like Time, we like to resolve time into neat little packages--years, decades, centuries, millenia--to impose a sense of stability on the events that fly by. And if ever a year offended our sense of order...
There has been a lot of namby pamby stuff down through the millenia about the meaning of Christmas. "World peace," "a time for reflection," "a season of renewal"--number those wishy-washies among the slogans of many a starry-eyed December liberal...
...their sons and daughters devoured the reading material of public libraries, while showing themselves conscientious pupils in the less-than-stellar public schools of their day. But Sowell dwells on much more than their cultural propensity for education; he sings the hymns that have distinguished the Jewish people for millenia: their resourcefulness, their adaptability, their reverence for knowledge, and their resilience in the face of oppression. His judgements are hardly fatuous, but the product of careful research and reflection. Sowell does a credible job purveying what usually passes for the stereotypes of certain ethnic groups as specific interpretations of their...
...Then when she went on the job market, she was not considered as an individual with her merits, but she became a representative, a role model, and in this guise collected compensation. Compensation for all the injustices that had been done to women for generations, or centuries, or even millenia. Who would pay that compensation...