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Colleagues: Did any of you see this last week? I got it from another list I'm on at home. William Safire's column: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/opinion/19SAFI.html "The 250th birthday party for James Madison, 'father of the Constitution,' took place this past weekend in the Library of Congress annex named after him. When I asked what the word was for a 250th anniversary, the Librarian, James Billington, instantly coined one, 'quadrimillennial.' That neologism could mean 4,000 years, not one-quarter of a millennium, but Billington was signaling that American history was no longer to be limited to multiples of mere centennials; rather, this republic deserves the long view of fractions of millennia." We live in a thousand year, er, republic? possis etiam: millennium quadrantarium That sounds more like Auden's "low, dishonest decade" raised to the third power. Christian Kopff University of Colorado, Boulder kopff@spot.colorado.edu David Lininger (kb0zke), LMS Hickory County R-1 Schools Rt 1, Box 838 Urbana, MO 65767 (417) 993-4226 mailto: tss003@mail.connect.more.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=