Word: antediluvian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antediluvian Radeliffe alumna and quite by chance the other day I found myself in the midst of a "talk in" in Fay House. It was a new and interesting experience and I gathered that a variety of issues were at stake but as everyone was talking at once it was difficult to discover the real grievance...
...other new variety offering is, by comparison, antediluvian. The title, Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour, says it all. The 76-year-old vaudevillian co-stars with four sisters who, though the oldest is not quite 30, are all 14-year veterans of The Lawrence Welk Show. The standard finale of their series will be an upbeat musical tribute to a city. Opening night it was Chicago (that toddlin' town), which the girls cheerily hymned as "the convention center of the nation...
...stands little chance of success. The Senate and House are strongly against it. In all likelihood, effective reform of the Post Office may not occur until the point -perhaps not too distant-at which mail service becomes so flagrantly bad that public wrath outweighs the political advantages of an antediluvian, public-be-damned system...
...that suggestion, implying that there is no American culture worth knowing, is antediluvian and, for our purposes, quite irrelevant. Neither Lamartine nor Gauguin can be of much use to us in our search for a real America behind the murk, the insouciance, and the chauvinism of the American mind. Indeed, an intense facing up to facts about this continent and its history is far more instructive, especially about the future of our world, than a facing backward to Europe, still a center of ferment and ideas, but no longer the depository of sane leadership...
David Gordon's comments, reported in the same story, avoid humility like the plague. Anyone who calls the lecture system "antediluvian" has obviously not listened to Fainsod or Maass or Friedrich or Banfield or Kissingers in the Government Department. His suggestion that students should get credit for their own seminars, with or without Faculty supervision, may be an excellent way to encourage bull sessions (as if they needed encouragement), but it is also overweeningly pretentious and not likely to produce much serious scholarship...