Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to be the Soviet leader who will lead his country into the next millennium. Yet in the past year he acted as though he had only one year rather than 14 to get the Soviet Union ready for the 21st century. He was a man relentlessly on the move, prodding every part of Soviet society to change. At the same time he was challenging the U.S. on many fronts with an energetic and sophisticated global diplomacy, Gorbachev often seemed determined to shape the Soviet Union to his own personal agenda by the sheer force...
...economy and give creative talents more freedom were defeated by entrenched bureaucracies and a privileged class that basically likes things the way they are. Gorbachev has made an impressive start, but it will take all his energy and willpower, and time, to press the Soviet monolith toward the third millennium...
...Philip Larkin's famous lament, "In nineteen sixty-three/ (Which was rather late for me) -- / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ And the Beatles' first LP." It was just in time, however, for Clive James, who arrived in London from Australia in 1962 seeking literary fame, the socialist millennium, bohemian good times and the love of beautiful women, not necessarily in that order. Eventually James would become a successful Fleet Street journalist-critic and a popular panelist on British TV. But for now his ambition was "to take a lowpaying menial job during the day and compose poetic masterpieces...
...wrote approvingly, "Catholics revere you and accept you as the second founder of the ancient faith, and -- which is a mark of greater fame -- all the heretics hate you." Indeed, one band of them almost managed to assassinate the troublesome bishop. Augustine's reliance on the state began a millennium of alliances between cross and crown, officially repudiated by Catholicism only...
...been forcibly cleared and 184 students arrested; 45 were taken to the hospital. The students responded with a three-day protest strike, much argument, many furious demands and dire prophecies. "It's hard to believe," said one dismayed dean, "that something put together over a third of a millennium by Harvard men can be destroyed in a few days in April...