Word: antediluvianism
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...have become the world's proving ground for conservation methods-thanks, in large part, to the collaboration of university laboratories and major chemical firms like Italy's Montedison. The techniques used by the more than 60 restorers and artisans in the Fortezza make most earlier methods look antediluvian. Says Umberto Baldini, 50, the dynamic head of the laboratories: "Once, restorers were like doctors who were trying to operate on a body without having done anatomical research. But the emergency of the flood made it obvious that art and science had to be brought closer together in a long...
...where peace, harmony and utter boredom had been expected to prevail next week, a fight over party reform is now shaping up. With the memory of the Democratic open combat still fresh in the public mind, Republican reformers are aware that their convention procedures may seem to many voters antediluvian, so they are determined to take their case to the convention floor, not only to advance their cause but to enhance the image of Republicanism as well...
...just dandy," said Civil Rights Attorney Marian Edelman. "Just let him explain it to all those black kids who remain in segregated schools." Lumping his colleague with John Mitchell, Spiro Agnew and Strom Thurmond, Yale's Professor Fred Rodell wrote that "The dominant domestic policy of this antediluvian league is to liquidate the work of the Warren Court for civil rights and civil liberties and replace it with resegregation and law and order." The slight, urbane professor was unruffled. "I would lose my way intellectually," he says, "if I started thinking about the political impact of my positions...
...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...