Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai, who received a lifetime post in 1989, was the first junior professor promoted within Harvard's History Department in 20 years. No wonder junior faculty members desert Harvard in droves...
...American mind may have sought out an innocent analogy: George Bush had -- unexpectedly, miraculously -- found the sweet spot. He and his men (Powell, Schwarzkopf, Scowcroft) had performed a miracle of American concentration and grace under pressure, after years when those seemed almost archaic American talents. Now Bush was rounding the bases while the baseball he hit was still rising in the air and might yet -- who knows? -- go into some orbit of higher historical meaning...
...between the Duke and Sir Thurio, heighten the dialogue's clumsiness. Although these modern touches are cute, most of the staging and delivery of the lines is traditional. Wu's decision to combine classical and modern elements rather than focus on one type of interpretation makes the dialogue appear archaic...
...wrong, Saddam had one thing right -- that the Middle East was due for some major refurbishing. Religious hatred, excessive militarization, economic inequities and entrenched feudalism combine to make it a nasty neighborhood. The region has long been -- and remains -- violence-prone, politically archaic, oppressive. The jolt of the gulf war, however, may change the physics for a moment. "Maybe the shock," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "will enable people to think afresh, more constructively." Just as the allies seized the moment to finish off Saddam's army, so too should they seize the opportunity to make lasting changes...
...answer became clear in an article in last Friday's Crimson. Ad Board members Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz demonstrated an archaic blame-the-victim attitude. It is an attitude that can only discourage women from filing acquaintance rape complaints...