Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January 1964 he journeyed to Jerusalem to meet and embrace Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I,on the Holy City's Mount of Olives. The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before. Later Paul established an international commission of Roman Catholic theologians to discuss differences of creed with Anglican colleagues, and approved a similar commission with Lutherans in the U.S. Both groups achieved a remarkable consensus on such issues as the nature of the ministry and the presence of Jesus Christ...
...name an earlier picture that served Robbins perfectly, The Carpetbaggers. The film does, however, offer one possible source of energy worth exploring. That, of course, is the libido. If the auto people in The Betsy could bottle that, they could power their products from here to the millennium and back...
Thus, in its different ways, constructivism aspired to become the last universal style. Its victory would bring the history of art to an end and accomplish the millennium. The constructivist vision was art's analogue to the reigning fantasy of Marxism: the dictatorship of the proletariat. Its ideal order would wipe out nostalgia for older styles and set up a "permanent revolution" of design. Alas for the designers, this did not happen. Most of the triumphs of constructivism survived in the fictional space of painting or sculpture, theater or typography. As soon as ideal form moved into the real...
...bring about 11 million or 12 million people out of poverty between 1965 and 1969. It didn't bring any millennium, but it brought a lot of improvement. In the '60s I had a much greater sense that we could craft from Washington what people should do, that we couldn't trust the states because they would not take care of black people or poor people...
...About ten years ago, as the architect of much of the Great Society, you spoke about eradicating poverty and bringing the millennium to this country. Why didn't those masses of bills...