Word: millennium
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...Reformation that befell the English church is nearly half a millennium past by now. Henry and Catherine have long crumbled into dust. But the 2-ft. by 3-ft. parchment petition, headed Sanctissimo in Christo and bemedaled with ribbons and the 75 red wax seals of the petitioners, looks as imposing as it did on the day in 1530 when it arrived on Pope Clement's desk. It was long filed away in the Vatican, but 100 years ago, the church opened its ancient archives to selected scholars. This year, to commemorate that date, the Vatican...
...club system will be effectively eliminated only if: 1) the reforms well up directly from the students themselves; and, 2) they strike at the central doctrine of the present system, the basic axiom of selectivity. Compared with all previous reformers, this year's freshman class could usher in the millennium immediately by unanimously signing a petition which would declare they will not join a club unless Bicker is abolished and the university administration is given unqualified authority to assign sophomores to the various clubs by applying the distribution principle to the applications submitted, just as is one in the case...
Boorman set himself a task only slightly less daunting than the search for the Holy Grail: to tell, in 140 minutes, the epic of Arthur, Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. He has a millennium of tough acts to follow: Malory and Tennyson and Tolkien, Wagner and Lerner and Loewe. On screen in the '70s, George Lucas set the story in space (Star Wars); Robert Bresson made it austere (Lancelot of the Lake), and six English cutups made it funny (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) But Boorman has never been cowed by precedent or expectations...
...isolate, define and synthesize a thousand years of attitudes about dying, burying, grieving and remembering. Ariès has burrowed through centuries of literature, folklore, religious history and civic and private documents. He has filled his eye with cemetery architecture, iconography, art and funeral kitsch. His conclusions: a millennium of living and dying in the West can be understood in five models...
While keeping tabs on Rohanda, Ambien II begins to believe that Canopus is far more advanced than Sirius. The Sirians are technological wizards, but every millennium or so they discover that their ever more sophisticated machines have rendered more people useless and unhappy. Ambien suspects that the Canopeans have achieved a wisdom that transcends this problem, and she initiates a friendship with Klorathy, a senior Canopean administrator, in the hope of prying his secrets away. The job is not easy. He has the habit of answering a question with another question. He is also given to interstellar bromides: "Everything...