Word: antediluvianism
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...anger and abuse were just about the only editorial commodities around. Papers that could look upon Goldwater with approval were in the minority. Leading it were the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News. "What, pray," asked the Journal, coming to Goldwater's defense, "is so antediluvian about saying that the pendulum . . . between individual freedom and State authority has swung too far to the latter? Plainly, it has." Said the Daily News: "Goldwater's victory in the convention next month would guarantee U.S. citizens a clearcut choice in November, as between conservative and liberal government. That...
With this admirable equipment and range of interest, Mrs. Bedford wrote The Legacy (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), a family study of the antediluvian fabric of Catholic European civilization that is regarded by a small but devout body of readers as a minor masterpiece. Now seven years after, she has followed it with A Favourite of the Gods, in which another family of aristocratic Europeans (this time, Italian-English-American rather than German-English) plays the complicated game of living by the exacting rules of class and faith...
...building by Corbusier is a work of clear genius. He has disobeyed all the "rules," convoluting and twirling the plastic concrete with an insolent skill, and even using that antediluvian material glass block with flair...
...painted-on look for the rich and daring; necklines are plunging. At Moscow's heated open-air swimming pools, which are open year-round, Victorian-style swim suits have yielded to two-piece costumes for girls. "Janes," as Moscow University jets call their girls (after the heroine in antediluvian Tarzan movies that reached Russia after World War II), are discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents ($6) are gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid...
...first national report on the John Birch Society-the antediluvian secret society of political right-wingers-appeared in TIME March 10, and was read into the Congressional Record by North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton R. Young. There has been a headline furor almost ever since, with this week's installment reported in THE NATION...