Word: anachronismâ
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WHEN he addressed the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Miami last June, George Meany spoke as a plumber who is no longer underestimated. For many years, his brand of unionism has been rather flippantly declared an anachronism???much too parochial and materialistic for a society with a strong streak of idealism. While other labor leaders graduated to a more sophisticated statesmanship, Meany stayed the same, still speaking in the gruff accents of his Bronx boyhood, still looking like the traditional portly boss with heavy lids drooping threateningly over steel-gray eyes. His ever-present cigar only served to complete the unflattering...
Several ignorant editors were shocked last week by what they conceived as an anachronism???a cable despatch from Rome announcing that Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan, wife of the great cavalry leader, had had an audience with Pope Pius. But it was no anachronism...
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