Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speculation about adultery, love affairs, "Dianagate," "Camillagate" -- the headlines are hurricanes buffeting a fragile, archaic institution that may not be able to withstand the impact. Each new revelation elicits more serious calls for the monarchy to be taxed, for a cut in its numbers who are paid a government stipend, and -- to entertain the unthinkable -- for the whole institution to be abolished. Even knowledgeable observers are writing off Charles and Diana as the next King and Queen. How could they take coronation vows, given their farce of a marriage, she possibly too high-strung to be Queen Consort, he exposed...
Calysta Drake '94 said, "I noticed that checking out books has been faster this year. It seems like the old system was archaic...
...Mexico hasn't officially existed for most of the past 131 years. Revolutionary heroes severed all ties to the Vatican as punishment for Catholic support of the landed elite and European intervention. Last week Mexican and church officials finally re-established diplomatic relations. "It is the end of an archaic debate," Nobel-prizewinning poet Octavio Paz told the local press. "We have problems too immense to be wasting our time with problems that are a hangover from the last century...
Part of Operation Rescue's failure comes from a misunderstanding of the area's political personality. "The assumption that Buffalo is an old-line, blue-collar sheet-metal town is absolutely archaic," says Gerald Goldhaber, who runs his own polling firm. "These days you tend to get a type of person who would not be receptive to Operation Rescue's message." For one thing, Buffalo is home to the largest school in New York State's massive university system. At the same time, two streams of financial fortune, one from an overheated economy in nearby Toronto and the other from...
Unable to engage our ideas in a serious, critical discussion, they are reduced to calling us names. They float the archaic image of hysterical women in an effort to delegitimize our fight to stop the violence and to reclaim our lives...