Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California, said Fred Allen, is all right if you are an orange. Henry (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer) Miller believes that it is even more all right if the oranges are the ones painted by Hieronymus Bosch in his famed Millennium- enigmatic little cosmological fruit "far more delectable, far more potent, than the Sunkist." For Author Miller is a devotee of the great Dutch painter (c. 1450-1516), who is believed to have been a follower of a heretical order called the Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit...
...ancient conquests. The new states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created out of what had once been St. Stephen's realm. Rumania got a large slice, and the Hungarian nation was reduced to a puny third of the Carpathian basin where Arpad had made his home a millennium earlier. Its predominantly Magyar population of 8,354,400 was 75% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish. In 1919, amid the anarchy of defeat and humiliation, a disciple of Lenin named Bela Kun, freed from a Russian prison camp and sent back to Hungary...
...miles high. And here, protruding into space, is the heartland of the antarctic's terror, the vat where much of its wrath and weather is brewed. Over this plateau sweep winds from distant seas, and here snow crystals have fallen like eider down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature may drop as low as 120° below zero, and there...
...great toothless millennium is not here yet, and all over the world little children are still having their nerves drilled out every six months, and are still biting their dentist's fingers in return. At Harvard, specifically, downtrodden College students are still faced with the problem of the third floor of the Hygiene Building...
...Pays What? But even in this mirage of the millennium a serpent slinks. There is discontent-of a kind most interesting to moralists-about the income tax. Internal Revenue Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews, a thoughtful man, has put it well. Asked if people really objected to paying taxes, he said that they did not, so long as they thought they were treated fairly in relation to other taxpayers...