Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hugh's own son Owen (Rufus Sewell) is the soldiers translator, returning to Ballybeg after six years in Dublin. He says to the villagers, "My job is to interpret your quaint, archaic tongue into the King's English...
Ironically, he instead relies primarily on the Harvard folklore surrounding the Folklore department. I could just as easily deride the Philosophy department for studying turgid and archaic prose which may have been applicable centuries ago but has lost meaning in the modern world. But that would display a juvenile understanding of the subject...
...exhibition will consist of sixty objects from the archaic period to the Roman period and will examine the links between ancient styles and techniques, and the new research methods that scholars are using today to study the sculptures...
Hence the glorious relief of those recent holiday meals. The food is unreformed, archaic, predictable -- mashed potatoes and gravy, overcooked veggies, huge slabs of pie. It's democratic, if not downright egalitarian -- meaning pretty much the same collection of foodstuffs whether you dine in a mansion or a soup kitchen. We can give thanks, with a chorus of satisfied belches, that the food is for once meant just to be filling, and that the only entertainment we're likely to find at the table is the people who are seated around...
...usual, some grumbled about Harvard's archaic finals system...