Word: archaical
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...course, the field widens immensely -- as does the spectrum of motives and responses. An honest copy becomes a fake when the context of desire is switched. There are Egyptian statues from the 7th century B.C. that deliberately copy the archaic style of Old Kingdom figures done nearly two millenniums before. Chinese craftsmen in the Sung dynasty made ritual bronze vessels almost indistinguishable from those of the Shang period, 2,100 years earlier. Roman sculptors in the 2nd century A.D. made versions of 5th century B.C. Greek prototypes, and from then on, there would be an immense industry in the copying...
FIRST, Harvard could change the date of Commencement from Thursday to Friday, Saturday or even Sunday. Certainly this proposal flies in the face of years of tradition. But the value of archaic tradition pales before the value of making Harvard accessible to students of all socio-economic backgrounds...
Hungarians waited 45 years for the free elections they finally enjoyed last week. Then they had to wait another 48 hours for the results to be funneled through an archaic telephone network and a malfunctioning computer system. When the bulk of the 7.5 million ballots were finally counted, the Hungarian Socialist Party, formerly the Communists, had won less than 11% of the vote, only enough to give it a peripheral role in the nation's future...
...following two volumes, What the Light Was Like (1985) and Archaic Figure (1987), added to Clampitt's reputation and, perhaps too readily, the verbiage at which she can be a little too facile. With her gift for images, gigantic vocabulary and command of classical literature, she might have become a parody of the ornate Gerard Manley Hopkins. Westward, thankfully, reverses that tendency. It still helps to know that Mulciber is another name for the fire god Vulcan, and that punto in aria is a kind of lace. But these poems speak directly to the reader, as if the writer...
Professor of Literature David M. Halperin, who helped organize Defeat Discrimination at MIT (DDaMIT), said his group's drive was launched in response to "a growing view that this ban on gay men and women in the military is silly and archaic...