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...saving Roosevelt for Man of the Millennium...
Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
...alternatives to the knife and the probe. Should . . . a medical remedy be found for cancer . . . if not in the next 50 years, at least within an imaginable span of time, the torchbearers of surgery will illuminate only that narrow field offered by injury to the body. In the medical millennium there will be only one kind of surgery-traumatic surgery...
...first time since 1900, I was struck by a change of mood. Humanity in general had come to think of itself in a way different from the confident eagerness of a half-century ago. Then everyone was all optimism, inevitable progress still enjoyed some degree of credibility, and the millennium had almost arrived. Man, while not still center of the universe, yet had faith in reason and his own power finally to wrest control of nature from those forces which had remained mysterious till then...
Concludes Mortimer Smith: "We have been going along now for some time on the theory that education consists simply of experience and change and 'growth,' and this theory has not... furthered the millennium to any startling degree. Perhaps we need to set up some ends for education; perhaps we need to ask, 'Growth toward what...