Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boisterous demonstrations for Adlai Stevenson, the efficient, machinelike Kennedy team had the nomination won before the first gavel bang. Heralding the advent of a new political breed-youngish, polished, businesslike technicians with culture and wit, the Kennedy men made the convention oratory seem superfluous and the floor demonstrations archaic...
flogger (underworld; archaic)-overcoat...
...scenes in which priests of Chemosh, played by weight lifters in green lingerie, clomp about to oboe music, the picture is commendably unepic. The actors strike a reasonable compromise between self-conscious reverence and nat ural behavior, and the speeches they are given are free from the archaic flourishes that no one since the time of King James has been able to write with conviction...
...good one) will never be called an important book, but it deals with important things-the changing seasons, the magical qualities of visiting uncles and spinster neighbors, the insatiable appetite boys have for berries picked in the noonday heat. Author Lee knows that his book has an almost archaic aspect. Not until the end do autos appear in the valley, and one uncle takes on the stature of a hero by becoming a bus driver. The language is always charming and often poetic, but what is most remarkable about these childhood memoirs is the total lack of sentimentality. The Edge...
...universities, from New Jersey's Rutgers to the University of Hawaii, students are protesting compulsory membership in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Pacifist groups sometimes exploit the protest, as they did in the pre-World War II days; but the real complaint is the U.S. Army's archaic training course on campus. While wags deride the jazzy new forest-green uniform ("Robin Hood's Men"), those who wear it resent long hours of playing doughboy with World War I machine guns. Last week dissidents were stirring up many a state university campus. Samples...