Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Archaic Taxes. The trouble with the great majority of such projects is lack of vision and planning. "There isn't a metropolitan area in the U.S. that has a comprehensive plan to accommodate its growth," says Baltimore Developer James Rouse. "The best prospect we have is that we will become a nation of Los Angeleses." More than 800 U.S. cities have modernized their housing and zoning codes in the past few years, and Houston is now the only major city that has allowed itself to soar and sprawl without zoning controls of any kind...
...there are still 5,000,000 substandard houses in cities-nearly all of them without running water or indoor toilets-and in some areas the number of barely habitable homes continues to rise. In New York alone, substandard houses have increased from 420,000 to 520,000 since 1960. Archaic taxing methods actually discourage slumlords from improving their properties, since they would then be assessed at a higher rate...
...Belshazzar. The Lowell House Music Society's production at St. Paul's Catholic Church is replete with processionals, swinging censers, and echoing trumpets. Backed by the cavernous marble nave, the play is infused with a sense of the ancient and the divine. Although the beautiful voice and lovely, archaic music are enough to make the program a success, there are faults in the production which detract seriously from its overall effect...
...clearly and powerfully over the male voices, and projects almost enough femininity to balance with the rest of the cast. The chorus in solemn, hollow, and always in tune on the difficult modal chants. The small group of instruments is just wispy and scratchy enough to produce a sweetly archaic tone. And the percussion, consisting of a bell, tambourine, triangle, and drum, lends a lilting, ingenuous tone to the music as a whole...
...another's court judgments. On the other hand, no state is required to recognize the highly popular 24-hour Mexican divorce, which shuns the domicile lie and mainly involves mutual consent. The only state that fully recognizes Mexican divorce is New York-all because its own archaic law has forced more than 250,000 New Yorkers to get Mexican divorces...