Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the effects of social and political disputes on this ideal. So he discusses President Lowell's bigotry; he covers restrictions on pro-Communist faculty and students during the McCarthy period; and he tries to determine why President Pusey failed to "appreciate the strength of the half of a millennium old norm that police should not be called to the precincts of a university...
...have come from these early lists. "Stonehenge is like the Alamo--it is not very impressive," one McWhirter may remark in passing. It is all but certain to begin a colloquy in which the brothers correct and interrupt each other, finish one another's sentences, and leap from one millennium to the next--all of it calmly, perfectly reasonably, in clipped accents, as though nothing else could possibly be expected. "Not very impressive? Well, how could it be? Built 1900 years before Christ, after...
...Rothenberg's discovery just about destroys that theory. From the stone hammers, bronze chisels and a cooking pot found in the labyrinthian tunnels of the Negev mine, he concludes that the mine dates back to 1400 B.C. -near the end of the Bronze Age and more than a millennium before Rome's large-scale mining endeavors...
Books dealing with the formation of the earth usually move only slightly faster than the glaciers that helped landscape the surface of the planet (about 20 miles a millennium). Continents in Motion is a striking exception. Walter Sullivan, science editor of the New York Times, concentrates as much on people and events as upon geological epochs. The result is a book nearly as entertaining as a good detective story-and considerably more informative...
When a cast is racially integrated, it has been the custom of audiences to pretend that nothing has happened, or to infer that the millennium has arrived. Nonsense. A mixture of black and white can sometimes disturb the texture of a play, as in Odyssey. Or it can enrich the work, as it does in Pippin. In Of Mice and Men, it grants the play a fresh resonance. The interdependence of George and Lennie is far more poignant and tragic than in the original. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the play would have been producible in the old style...