Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support of the American people for your daily deliberations." Referring to the nuclear test ban treaty, he declared: "Today we may have reached a pause in the cold war - but that is not a lasting peace. A test ban treaty is a milestone - but it is not the millennium ... If we can stretch this pause into a period of cooperation, then surely this first, small step can be the start of a long and fruitful journey...
...takes in only teachers. Nor is it wont to equate teachers with doctors or lawyers as professionals who can pick their clients and set their fees. It sees teachers as overworked employees who deserve "a single salary schedule" starting at $6,000 and rising to $14,000-still the millennium in most places. To that end, President Megel steers what he calls "a progressive, dynamic course, aimed at closer affiliation with the A.F.L.-C.I.O." As he sees it, "salary is still the unmistakable measurement of the desirability of a job, whether shoveling coal or teaching in a classroom...
...opportunities that the U.S. and its allies must meet, and indeed exploit, with all their ingenuity and effort. The treaty is a new factor in what is plainly a more hopeful era in the cold war (see THE WORLD). As the President said, it is by no means "the millennium." But it carries in its brief and direct text some hope that it may become, in the President's words, "a historic mark in man's age-old pursuit of peace...
Rage at the World. In an era when the philosophers of the French Enlightenment were arguing that man was a rational being whose natural instincts were good and had only to be allowed free expression to achieve the millennium, De Sade insisted that man's true instincts were to steal, rape and murder...
Tertullian condemned the theater as the "shrine of Venus," and it took the church a millennium to change its judgment . . . There have been those whose socks and buskins were as happily quiet under pews as active on the boards. You, sir, are such...