Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Islam: "As the sons of proud people we are coming together and moving forward to chart the course for our future as responsible heads of our families; to reclaim and build our neighborhoods; to unify our families; and to save our children who will lead us into the next millennium...
...weeks he labored painstakingly to find just the right words: balancing regret for a fading century's horror with the promise borne by the approaching millennium. During his fourth trip to the U.S. last week, Pope John Paul II visited New York, New Jersey and Maryland, but the centerpiece was his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, on the eve of the U.N.'s 50th anniversary. Switching from English to French, from Russian to Spanish, the 75-year-old Pontiff condemned the genocidal impulses that have scarred the 20th century. But he held out hope for the 21st, saying...
...THRESHOLD OF A NEW MILLENNIUM WE ARE WITNESSING an extraordinary global acceleration of that quest for freedom which is one of the great dynamics of human history. This phenomenon is not limited to any one part of the world; nor is it the expression of any single culture. Men and women throughout the world, even when threatened by violence, have taken the risk of freedom, asking to be given a place in social, political and economic life which is commensurate with their dignity as free human beings...
...defining trial of the 1990s. The Simpson case offhand seems an unbeatably lurid end-of-the-millennium American omnium-gatherum of race (the nation's oldest, most durable inflammation of the psyche), sex, celebrity, media hype, justice and injustice . A perfect demonstration of how the American tendency to moralize has gone into partnership with the American appetite for trash-the superego and the id so nicely morphed that they are indistinguishable...
...What we are doing is electing the person who will be president at the start of the next millennium," Cerny said...