Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great personal freedom of expression and in the arts, is currently undergoing a tight fit with religion: Catholic bishops who want to celebrate the 1,000th year of Polish Catholicism in Czestochowa this May are clashing head-on with party nationalists, who want to save the thunder for the millennium of Polish nationhood and protect the Oder-Neisse Line from West German "ecumenism" as well. As a result, Gomulka's government denied a passport to Rome for Stefan Cardinal Wyszyńiski. Hungary is Communism's least oppressive realm, yet the velvet glove...
...jealous of their positions" and unwilling to help their sisters; but self-declared house-wives sell out, too. Mrs. Friedan cannot find any model for her "four-dimensional women." She disdains most American women because they settle for jobs as clerk-typists yet she blindly works for a millennium, a "human revolution...
...Madness? Millennium...
...Christian love, might battle successfully the sophistries of European religion (based ominously on both intellect and tyranny); the American churches, once laced with enough committees and missions, might achieve unity even out of extreme diversity; and a united America, presumably, would usher the rest of the world into the millennium. "The event of the century", Miller ironically notes, the revival of 1857-58, "lifted the populace to its most grandiose conception of unity just before slavery sundered the country...
...kind of thing they have created-or what are its ultimate potential and limitations. The computer, says Dr. Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Tech, represents "an advance in man's thinking processes as radical as the invention of writing." Yet the computer is neither the symbol of the millennium nor a flawless rival of the human brain. For all its fantastic memory and superhuman mathematical ability, it is incapable of exercising independent judgment, has no sense of creativity and no imagination...