Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's taste tends toward 19th century folk art represented by some delectable objects in the Whitney. The most splendid "unofficial" sculpture is a veritable New Jerusalem of junk and old furniture sheathed in gold and silver foil, the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, begun in 1950 in a Washington garage by a black janitor named James Hampton, and left unfinished on his death in 1964. It was meant for Christ at his Second Coming and may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American...
...America is only a part of his involvement with all of history. The idea of an American covenant dates from the New England Puritans, who combined the biblical teaching of God's covenant with Israel with an assertion of America's special role in preparing for the millennium...
...years following the Civil War, the eight-hour day became the central issue for the trade unions. The Eight-Hour movement produced a passionate surge of feeling among workers that was reflected in dozens of songs characterized by the promise of the millennium once the goal had been achieved. One song, appearing in the monthly magazine of the American Federation of Labor, was entitled Hip! Hip! for Eight Hours. The chorus proclaimed...
...long as we are realistic about détente and don't expect it to be the millennium, I think we can build from that relationship and use it for not only the relaxation of tensions between ourselves and the Soviet Union, but as an instrument in calming fears, holding back rash action and keeping the world relatively quiet so we can work for the solution of the problems on a regional basis around the world...
...book also presents a collage of classic one-liners for use in very special circumstances. Perhaps only once a millennium will a nobleman state that an actor-playwright will die either from venereal disease or hanging. Samuel Foote's riposte: "My Lord, that will depend upon one of two contingencies -whether I embrace your lordship's mistress or your lordship's principles." Hardly more common is the straight line offered to James Joyce by a burbling admirer: "May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?" Snapped Joyce: "No, it did a lot of other things too!" When...