Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Millennium. In Washington, Allen expects to encourage progress by prodding the states into action. "The states simply must play their part in the renaissance of education," he says. "They must release the power for innovation arid accomplishment that's bottled up in local communities." While willing to be flexible in dealing with school districts that preserve segregation, Allen insists that "when there is a violation of the law, the full force for compliance will be exercised...
...effusions that issue from the flower children of the modern coffee house-quite a different breed from an 18th century coffee house. "A thousand years may elapse," Dr. Johnson said, "before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." With a quarter-millennium nearly gone, a reading of Quennell's Pope, and of Pope himself, indicates that that forecast remains remarkably sturdy...
Thus might Johann Sebastian Bach and his family have celebrated Christmas nearly 250 years ago. In its joyous expression of a faith that was as natural as breath, that scene seems to be more than a millennium away from 1968, when the season celebrating the Saviour's birth is a time of commercial convulsion. Even many of those yearning for piety find Jesus elusive, a shadowy problematical name in history rather than a symbol of ultimate reassurance. Seen through the scrim of contemporary anxiety and unbelief, everything about the Bach-family Christmas seems to be a quaint anomaly...
...worst horrors of the 20th century derive from politics or science or both. This was not always the case. For a millennium and a half the worst horrors were theological. The fear of hell and the hope of heaven gave shape to some of the greatest achievements of the pictorial art of Europe. On this eschatological basis, Australian-born Critic Robert Hughes has compiled a catalogue of terrors and delights, drawn mainly from Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch masterworks. Man, it is clear, has found it considerably harder to envisage felicity than its opposite, and so the infernal regions have...
...Something new? Not if you remember the way vaudeville jugglers used to spin plates at the end of a stick. In fact the company had some success with an earlier version. But the toy has not been around for almost nine years, and that for fads is approximately a millennium...