Word: archaical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frats, moreover, have deep roots in Penn's history, and to suggest that they are perhaps a bit archaic is to incur undying hatred from many prominent (and wealthy) alumni. The "old grad" would as soon sacrifice a thousand professors as do away with old Kappa Dappa Doo. Whether or not it likes the system, the University is shackeled to it for the foreseeable future...
...duty to and faith in his God - than she has yet power to illuminate. For much of the book, Abraham strides forward with Old Testament credibility. But toward the novel's end, tragedy bows to contrivance which teeters on the brink of absurdity; the writing turns from archaic simplicity to perfervid pleading. Unfortunately for her purpose, the characters who seem most alive are the women : the silly, gabbling, pitiable gossip, Mrs. Plopler, and the bereft Sarah, who had wept so much that "the ocean had drained away, and she cried now with only the pebbles on the beach...
...Toynbee's attitude toward Judaism is ambivalent. He is highly eloquent about its spiritual and moral values, inevitably sees it as the fount of Christian civilization. But he also deplores its exclusive or "chosen people" attitude, regards its ritual adherence to the Law as an archaic dead end, accuses Zionism of attempting to achieve the Messianic promise of the Jews' return to Israel through force. Toynbee's sentiments-and scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee...
...regard to your July 30 People item on "yare-proportioned" Miss Universe: Which of the three meanings of this archaic word are you using? 1) ready; 2) eager, active; 3) easily worked, manageable...
...bones, just as the family home in the town of Dunstable (somewhere between Baltimore and Philadelphia) has it in its proud colonial lines. But as the 19th century draws to a close, the judge's kind of character and uncompromising integrity are beginning to seem a little archaic, just as the big house seems to be an anachronism in the heart of a town daily becoming more industrialized and ugly. What is worse, the judge's grandson, a fine lad and a Princeton man to boot, cannot sustain the oaklike traditions which he so admires...