Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Computer difficulties aside, New Year's Eve 2000 will be just another day. As Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner points out, "If the universe is 15 billion years old, that's a million millennia. What's the big deal?" The danger in our societal emphasis on the coming millennium is that as we spend so much time measuring and acknowledging the passage of time, we begin to ignore what it is we're doing in that time...
...lose the context and the reason for our actions when we're constantly looking to evaluate the outcome and, by extension, we lose our appreciation for the actions of others. "Emphasis on something like the millennium deflects attention from the genuinely important matters that work themselves out over decades. An educated man or woman should forget the date and look on either side of it," says Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John R. Stilgoe...
Many of the media's millennial specials that do look on either side of the Main Event are useful; the New York Times Magazine's six special issues on the last 1,000 years, and "Millennium," a British television production, take advantage of the historical moment to examine broad trends facing society. On the other hand, London's Millennium Dome, created as a massive ode to the year 2000 complete with art displays, computer exhibits and a multi-million dollar price-tag, is a good example of the movie opening mentality--creating a huge structure in honor of one fleeting...
That January 8, 1900 edition of The Crimson, with its brief look at the happenings of the previous century, is of course not the kind of in-depth review needed for an entire millennium. But its approach of examining the past in appreciation and then moving on to the future without hype, without fear of apocalypse or blind expectation of a momentous event, is worth emulating...
...just a celebration of the end of a capital campaign...but the program is going to be an opportunity to take stock of where the University stands at the start of a new millennium," Fineberg says...