Word: millennia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LISTING of the great millennia always reminds me of the cross-sections of soil levels that we learned in science class. Topsoil, sedentary soil, shale coal, diamonds, oil, primordial sludge, fire brimstone the boogey monster and the other side of the globe...
...after a half-year in a place that over the millennia has known its fair share of miracles, I don't count my continued existence as one of them. In fact, given what's been happening in America lately, I might even say I stood a better chance "surviving" over there than I do back here...
...very foundation of the Jewish faith and identity are the Old Testament and the Talmud. These texts are the basis of the resilient Jewish culture which has withstood such great adversity for millennia. The Jewish denunciation of homosexuality is unequivocal in passages such as Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman: that is an abomination." The Old Testament is very clear in its condemnation of the homosexual lifestyle, which Hillel has embraced as a legitimate "minority." If AALARM is to be condemned for its belief in the immorality of homosexuality and sodomy, then...
...provocative and erudite new book, The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities, Richard Sennett argues that the past two millennia have seen the construction of walls of isolation and introspection around the human soul. In particular, he believes, the structure of the cities we inhabit has both prompted and reflected an increasing tendency to separate the spiritual and social aspects of our lives. The physical qualities of public spaces no longer express the complexities of our psychic existence; when we wish to contemplate, we withdraw. In places like classical Athens, Sennett writes...