Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monkey," said Henry Ward Beecher, "is an organized sarcasm upon the human race." The sarcasm is seldom allowed to speak for itself in this film about a space odyssey that goes awry and crash-lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand, but soon they stumble across...
There are fertility idols from 6000 years ago, Trojan jewelry predating the Trojan War by a millennium, Hittite art, and works done under Assyrian, Greek, and Roman domination. Religious objects, ceremonial paraphernalia, pottery and tableware are as much documents of Anatolian civilization as portraits of Trajan and exquisite manuscript illustrations...
...simple cauldron of the eighth century B.C. that combines utility and decoration in smooth, clean lines, a magnificent portrait head of Alexander the Great, a seventeenth century jade ewer inlaid with gold and set with rubies and emeralds, intricate and enormous carpets, miniaturist painting and goldware of the second millennium...
...20th century is approaching old age. Just 33 years away lies the birth of a new millennium, an event that will be witnessed by two out of every three Americans alive today. Even the most farsighted among them cannot accurately predict what the world will be like then. But in the fast-expanding new field called futurism, the once mystical art of soothsaying has developed a scientific approach...
...tourist traveling through France, medieval art seems just one dark cathedral after another. He is rarely aware that many of the gargoyles, crockets and spires that he sees are merely 19th century replicas designed to replace what time and the French Revolution destroyed. The artistic magnificence of a millennium in which man rose to the confidence of the Renaissance has been largely scattered -and there is more to it than what is found in churches...