Word: archaic
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...while this unfair and archaic rule deprives the Ancient Eight of the chance to attain the national prominence and respect it deserves, it also allows for the existence of a phenomenon that’s uniqueness and importance is derived from the abrupt termination of Ivy play after the tenth week of the season: The Game...
...Washington until Sasha and Malia have kids. As that happens, the arguments that have framed economic debate in recent times - for large upper-income tax cuts or the partial privatization of Social Security and Medicare - will fade into irrelevance. In an era of liberal hegemony, they will seem as archaic as defending the welfare system became when conservatives were...
...There is a similarly clear imperative for steamrolling the opponents to comprehensive environmentalism. What’s more, the promises and improvements of a post-carbon society will vastly outshine the archaic values which will have to be cancelled. But the environmental revolution requires at least something of a revolutionary rhetoric—not because it is appealing but because it is true. Some will be hurt by environmentalism. Many more, lucikly, will accrue its benefits...
...possible First Ladies. The winner of the contest for the past four elections has gone on to be (or continued to be) the First Lady. This year, Cindy McCain's Oatmeal-Butterscotch cookies beat out Michelle Obama's shortbread cookies. A cookie contest for our First Lady? Archaic? Ridiculous? Well then, how 'bout a dance-off between the candidates themselves? This virtual throwdown between John McCain and Barack Obama should at least take your mind off the 1950s flashback with a little bit of crumpin', twirling and fancy footwork...
...dead” languages, their usefulness is not similarly consigned to the past. The fact that they have ceased evolving, like “living” languages continue to do, endows them with an unchangeable grammar and syntax, impervious to innovation. Mastering the nuances of archaic constructions and a catalogue of rules and their innumerable exceptions calls for patience, persistence, and an analytical mind—all qualities that behoove a student of any discipline.In literature and poetry, the classical languages have left an unmistakable influence on subsequent traditions. Readings of Shakespeare or Corneille or even Beckett are deeper...