Word: archaical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend to restore...
...Archaic Britons. Meantime still another ad began appearing in newspapers in U.S. cities: "Student of Anglo-American relations is anxious to know what qualities are most disliked in the British . . ." It proved to be the work of the London Daily Mirror's waspish Columnist Cassandra (William Connor), who could hardly wait to return from his vacation to see what the postman had brought. One of the papers carrying his ad, the Washington Post and Times Herald, published its own reply: "The British are archaic. They cling to worn-out practices. They profess to see virtue in . . . training for public...
...group of regional writers, e.g., Robert Penn Warren. John Crowe Ransom, enraptured by the agrarian tradition of the middle South. He put eight years into writing The Velvet Horn, and it shows in the detailed research, the loving re-creation of events and places, the carefully archaic turn of phrase. Long after most readers have forgotten his flamboyant Cropleighs, they will remember such fine set pieces as the marriage of Julia and the wake of Joe Cree with its barbecue, and the excellent sketches of the mountain people, whose folk talk has the pith and point too often lacking...
...title of this exciting new novel sounds like an archaic phrase in celebration of spring. But Greenbloom is a man, not a season. More important, he is a state of mind. Greenbloom is awareness, sentience, ceaseless war on man's most deadly enemy, which is not cancer or heart disease, but habit-all the routines of thinking, feeling and doing that enable humans to get through life without living...
Advice. The book does not depend on its gamey moments and archaic oddballs for its best effects. Essentially it is a victory of writing, each sentence surely pointed toward its purpose. Author Cheevers rueful love of his characters touches every page of the book. But perhaps he liked Leander best, Leander who left this "Advice to my sons'" in a copy of Shakespeare...