Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speakers at businessmen's luncheons. He quotes Pearl Buck on idle U.S. women: "Work is the one supreme privilege which . . . will really make them free." And Emerson at his wowserish worst: "Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium...
There it was, the millennium between thumb and forefinger, all set to pop into the world's wide mouth. But history has always had a deft way of palming the millennium till later in the show; and in Frank Norris' tricky piece of pseudohistorical vaudeville, Nutro 29, now you see it now you don't, almost before the author can say nutrono-methylsilicaphe-noxycreosalic acid...
Wind & Dollars. By the time it ends (with the millennium safely postponed by Government control of the pill), Author Norris has jabbed his needle left & right, high & low, popping gas pockets all over the current scene. Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine...
None of this growth and prospering meant that the millennium had arrived; the Northwest had vexing problems. Its economy was still based primarily on mining, fishing, agriculture and lumbering, and though all were doing well, they did not fully support the expanding population...
...seemed at first to be a step which would greatly accelerate the process of Westernization . . . [But] the Soviet leaders have 'abandoned the idea of the Renaissance and are now in the process of developing a pattern of culture as burdened with dogma as . . . anything known in the past millennium...