Word: millenium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes this Trojan Women such good tragedy is that it shows off passion without self-consciousness, and we extend our sympathy to meet it half way. It uses a passionate form of music, rock and roll, so naturally and so well that it may be that long-awaited theatrical millenium--a real rock and roll musical. Bradley Burg's score, which, when it is not playing off organ beeps against tympani thumps, is airing subtle and poignant melodies, may well be the best music he has written...
...have no doubt that eventually the Harvard and Radcliffe commencements will be combined," Pusey wrote her in reply. "But . . . at the present time the problems seem great. Until that millenium arrives, we hope you may be willing to follow the same course as the class officers did last year...
...understanding to his friends and neighbors, then the circle of impact will widen beyond comprehension." Lest the mind grow dizzy at the calculations, it may be best to point out that the overwhelming majority of returned Volunteers are satisfied with what they themselves learned; as for the millenium, they appear willing to let that take care of itself
...Boyle's "A Poem About the Jews" rolls in 169 long, free-verse lines from Old Testament times to the present, noting random instances of anti-Semitic atrocity. She mentions the Nazis only in anticipation, and millenium-old progroms accumulate a terribly immediate horror from the comparison. "The Germans were not alone in their fury." Finally, she narrates in stoical understand language the Mississippi murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and poses devastatingly the question: "Can we say/ Now we have heard enough? Can we say the history is done...
...only you could judge a book by its cover, the current edition of the Lampoon would be the most brilliant to come out in many years. How many good parodies of the Bayeux tapestry have you seen in the last millenium? David McClelland's cover brings the Norman invasion to Harvard and is much funnier than anything British advertisers produced in their summer-long camapign to sell Stout by making fun of the Battle of Hastings. If you see anyone laughing out loud at what's inside the Lampoon (and how often do you see that?), it is probably McClelland...