Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world of four universal freedoms ... of nations united and peoples at peace in a reign of concord and prosperity within a global new Arcady. Such a Pollyanna outlook . . . was described by one astute critic in the early '40s as 'Dawnism,' the ingenuous expectation that the millennium was at hand, or at the very most a political conference or two away...
...film Martin Luther, the Lutherans chose a moviemaker who is capable of resisting Hollywood's inclination to see every religious picture as de Millennium. Documentary-minded Louis de Rochemont (Lost Boundaries) likes authentic outdoor sets and on-the-spot extras, and Producer Lothar Wolff sent him to western Germany to get plenty of both. To play Luther, Wolff chose British Actor Niall MacGinnis, surrounded him with a varied cast, and began to shoot scenes in 12th century Maulbronn Cloister, Eberbach Cloister and the castle at Eltville (instead of Luther's Wittenberg, which is in Russian hands). Even more...
...Benton Harbor, Mich. After "King" Benjamin died in 1927, while appealing his famed conviction on morals charges, the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary got half of its several-hundred-thousand-dollar property, gathered 200 loyal followers and established a new colony, where she awaited the millennium by supervising the colony's dairy farms and souvenir shops...
...Hall of Our History' will be . . . longer than two city blocks, wider than a football field and taller than a nine-story building." Added Gugler: "No one would look at the pyramids if they were 20 or 30 feet high . . . This shrine will endure for a millennium...
Energy Unlimited. Chairman Dean points out emphatically that the success of the breeder reactor is not the dawn of a new atomic millennium. Fuel supply is only one of the obstacles that stand in the way of atomic power at competitive prices. But the breeder eliminates any possibility that the world's supply of fissionable material will run out in the practical future. Under the system of burning only the U-235, each pound of natural uranium, containing .007 Ibs. of fissionable materials, was equivalent in energy to about 18,200 Ibs. of coal. The breeding system makes...