Word: millenniums
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...nuns and monks of St. Cyprian, as Novelist Schmitt calls her island, and it seems that God forgot them-or so they thought-in A.D. 997. In those years just before 1000, theologians were predicting the imminent Second Coming of Jesus Christ; with the end of the millennium would come the end of the world followed by the Last Judgment with infinities of sinners standing naked before the Lord. When an earthquake and tidal wave struck, washing away St. Cyprian's connection with the mainland, its people simply supposed that God had emptied the rest of the world, forgetting...
...summit has not brought the millennium, peace, but it has brought some tremendously significant new conditions in the world. Reports TIME Correspondent John Shaw from Moscow: "A move from the 'absence of war' toward something not only safe but fruitful cannot be achieved easily and certainly not by remote control or through ambassadors and technicians, no matter how able. It requires the look into the eyes, hours of talking that reveal leaders and their motives to one another. Someone has written that 'Russia is not to be grasped with the mind. It is to be believed...
Clearly, a University such as Harvard which plays so crucial a role in America's economic structure may never free itself of the dehumanizing aspects of its educational structure so long as the "relations of educational production" emulate the relations of material production in society. However, since the Millennium is somewhat distant, there is no excuse for ignoring the potential of the tools and ideas which are presently at hand...
Some have argued a bit extravagantly in the past that a woman President would bring the millennium: her explicitly feminine qualities would gentle the militaristic impulse, introduce new compassion to such fields as health care, housing and education, and render government deeply humane. But many theoreticians of Women's Liberation think that that argument carries a sexist seed. Says Gloria Steinem: "The truth probably is that women are not more moral, they are only uncorrupted by power...
...hottest arguments and the highest enthusiasms in archaeology today swirl round the small Aegean island of Santorini. There Professor Spyridon don Marinatos, director of the Greek Department of Antiquities, is digging up evidence to explain the downfall of the great Minoan civilization in the middle of the second millennium B.C. Former TIME Art Editor Alexander Eliot, who has also written extensively on Greek history and mythology, recently visited Santorini to tour the excavations. His report...