Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations in Manhattan. It is a dazzling show, and not only because of its metal...
...beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino and Calima - shared, whatever their differences of society and religion, a superb instinct for the vital shape. Whether the object is a heart-shaped Calima pectoral with a fierce mask glaring from the center of its luxuriant curves, or a Muisca votive...
...fact that no matter how colonized the natives may feel, the Portuguese have arrogantly not considered their territories as colonies; they are part of Portugal itself. To give up Mozambique was almost the same, in the minds of the older generation, as giving up the Algarve. For half a millennium the territories had been part of Portugal, romantic symbols of the country's rich past. If the Portuguese should leave now, some hardliners have further insisted, the territories would suffer the same fate that befell the Congo when the Belgians left. "It would be a crime to leave...
...monasteries go, Taizé is young-a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizé was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking for a site for a Protestant experiment in monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizé, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution. Before the Germans occupied...
...similarity to Arthurian legend is hardly coincidental, though Richard Tregaskis, the war correspondent (Guadalcanal Diary) and novelist who died last August, was writing about the ruler of a small island kingdom a millennium removed from Camelot. In telling of Kamehameha, the very real soldier who waged a 30-years' war (1780-1810) to create an Hawaiian nation, Tregaskis leaned indulgently on legends of the sort that defy time and locale. The Polynesians had neither calendar nor alphabet before English-speaking traders started settling in the islands in the 1780s. Knowledge of Kamehameha's early career is misty, accounts...