momentous

Don\’t you get the feeling 2003 will be a Big One?\n\nEvery generation believes it is witness to momentous times. That desire accounts for people at the fringes who forecast the imminent end of the world — then are forced to readjust their predictions when, say, 2000 came and went like lunchtime.\n\nBut it also accounts for the rest of us who smirk when reciting the Chinese curse, \”May you live in interesting times,\” certain that, as opposed to the Chinese guy who came up with the phrase, ours really are interesting times.