Word: millenium
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Inspired by and largely based on writings done by people in their 20s and early 30s, Cantata 2000 is, in Swados's words, a "circus of words." She hopes it portrays "what it's like to be twenty-something and live as the millenium is being pushed in your face...
What has gotten into people? Maybe everybody's worried about that whole millenium thing. Or maybe it's something in the water. Of course, television has its share of the blame. And I always knew that the light board in Loker was trouble...
...their down bundled children and their sweatered terriers. These early risers walked into the Quad and stopped, tilting their heads like confused pigeons. They approached the Easter Island god in deference and squinted, beholding the gleaming object. Children reached out to touch the indifferent god; the inspiration of a millenium-old design spoke to them here, brought from halfway across the world...
...positive energies of our liberal era are spent, and the problems resulting from this will lead directly to the politics of tomorrow. What is coming, wedded to the birth of the next millenium, is a moral revolution...
...difficult to understand why. Eighty percent of American Catholics, according to recent polls, disagree with the Pope's conservative stances on issues like abortion, homosexuality and the all-male celibate clergy. The unapologetic orthodoxy that Karol Wojtyla has made the hallmark of the church as it enters the next millenium does not play well to American Catholic audiences. Protestants and Jews, it would seem, disagree with his views that much more...