Word: millenniums
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...number of working women will rise to 75%. We will see full-day programs for children from the age of three." It will take thousands of new preschools to meet that demand, and many more thousands of new teachers and assistants. The prospect is inviting and daunting: the millennium is only nine years away...
...world's only great culture was a mechanism of social, economic and political control. We have to expose that, critique it and move on, because it's a new world. We can either be rooted in the 19th century or we can blast off to a whole new millennium...
...Swiss Army Knife. The world, with a surreal, decisive crispness, has been sorting itself into categories of Old Paradigm and New Paradigm. The 1990s have become a transforming boundary between one age and another, between a scheme of things that has disintegrated and another that is taking shape. A millennium is coming, a cosmic divide. The 20th century is an almost extinct volcano; the 21st is an embryo...
...will be nervous until they find their identity, but there is still another reason to be worried. Consider this: We're on the home stretch to the millennium.The end of a century, let alone a millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...
...senseless and sublime" theological and moral system. "The Mesoamerican vision of the world and of man is shocking. It is a tragic vision that both stimulates and numbs me. It does not seduce me, but it is impossible not to admire it." So might some Russian of the 3rd millennium A.D. rhapsodize about the ancient sacrificial rites of Stalinism, immolating its millions to the God of the Future...