Word: milleniums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alternate approach, and an equally satisfying tack, is more intimate. More recent historians have sought to bring broad themes out in relief by focusing on small communities and individuals. Paul Johnson's A Shopkeeper's Millenium, which focuses on Rochester New York in the early 1800s, is but one example of this immensely fruitful approach to social history in relation to the broader debates of the time...
...those who expected a Statue of Liberty redux, the glitz was disappointing. But for those who worried that the show would be too glitzy, the show was perfectly dignified. Dignified even enough for an educational institution more than one-third of a millenium...
WHEN A PERIOD of history becomes ancient, the accomplishments of the age become grand. Perhaps the ability to survive a millenium or two or three makes these works larger than life...
...President's carping is especially pathetic in light of the hype that accompanied the 1980 supply-side millenium. In the President's own words of last September, the tax break budget cut bonanza was supposed to usher in "an American Renaissance that will astound the world" a transformation so radical that past Democratic errors couldn't possibly stand...
...masterpiece, from that aspect, is James Hampton's Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General Assembly. Hampton (1909-64), a janitor for the General Services Administration in Washington, started his own sect, of which he was the only member. The Throne was his life's work. It occupied him for 15 years, and it was still unfinished, locked in a rented garage, at his death. It was provoked by visions of Moses, the Virgin Mary and Adam. They inspired him to raise a monument, not to a past event but to a future...