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Article: GREAT EXPECTATIONS GREET 20TH CENTURY AMERICA'S DRIVE TOWARD A PROSPEROUS, MODERN FUTURE IS SIDETRACKED BY A RETURN TO A TRAGIC, BARBARIC PAST.(OUR MILLENNIUM)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1999
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WE'VE SPED THROUGH 900 years of Our Millennium already, and now here we are at last at Our Century, the beginning of the truly modern world.
It is the dawn of America's Century, although we Americans, and the rest of the world for that matter, wouldn't think of it in quite that way until Henry Luce coined the term in a Life magazine editorial in 1941, nine and a half months before Pearl Harbor.
Europe was still undisputed ruler of the world that greeted the 20th century. There had been peace on the continent for three decades, and there was a rising level of prosperity and a complex network of alliances that gave expectation of more of the same.
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