Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assume that the next millennium will be the Millennium...
...long time we Americans considered our nation itself as the fulfillment of a sort of millennium, a divinely ordained new order, God's own attempt to start over. The notion is far from dead, and it doesn't show up merely in Fourth of July patriotism. There is, for instance, the Panglossy suggestion from a serious academic that, at least in theory, we have devised so perfect a system that we have reached the end of history...
...daily lives, we believe in a great many small secular millenniums; one of them is success. Romance is a kind of millennium too, and we cling to it with amazing fidelity, despite sexual freedom and divorce -- the triumph, as Dr. Johnson said about second marriages, of hope over experience...
...means, approach our fin de siecle, our fin de millennium, with what joy we can muster. Let's get aboard the QE2; let's celebrate at the Great Pyramid or wherever. And then let's get down to work again, and back to reality...
When Eastern Orthodox leaders met in Istanbul for the first time in a millennium to claim a new, more assertive role for their church, they achieved a remarkable degree of unity with one another. But their joint decree last week revealed a serious disagreement with other Christians...