Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor emeritus and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer prize, will lecture in the East Room of the White House on American Revolutionary history to about 180 people as part of the White House Millennium lecture series...
...audience will include the President, the First Lade, academics, college students and the media, according to Sue M. Vogelsinger, a spokesperson for the White House Millennium Council...
...this is shallow thinking. Why not write a millennium novel? Or duct-tape the millennium to a novel you're already writing? Almost any contemporary fiction, no matter how inconsequential and light-minded, has a fighting chance of taking on weight and portent, perhaps even significance, if shoved 23 months into the future. And if significance is elusive, where's the harm...
...calendar slouches toward the big triple zero, the prudent citizen reviews options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
...Guys from Verona, by James Kaplan (Atlantic Monthly Press; 341 pages; $25), is also set at the millennium's turn, to no symbolic, ironic, metaphysical or literary effect whatsoever. Who cares? It's a caustic parody of platinum-card pretension in New Jersey's upper-middle-class 'burbs. Everyone drives I-got-mine-mobiles, lives in we-got-ours palazzos and connives ceaselessly to trade up for yet grander cars, real estate, spouses and even, Lord love a duck, tennis partners. Was it this way in 1974, when Will and Joel were big-shot seniors at Verona High School? They...