Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century Cambodia, an image as silent and epigrammatic as any archaic Greek kouros...
Both Woods and the Rev. Juan Cortes, a Jesuit psychology teacher at Georgetown, point out that in traditional Catholic teaching on possession, the evil spirit was considered to be a lesser demon, not the devil himself. Cortes doubts the existence of such lesser demons, seeing them merely as archaic religious interpretations of what are now recognized as mental and psychological disturbances. Though Cortes believes in a personal devil who incites evil, he does not believe in possession. Thus, he says, the movie results in "a victory for the devil, because people will believe he can actually possess them...
...history. He plies the big-state genre, hoping his readers will be thinking of, say, Hawaii or Giant. They probably won't. Cooley's stagehands bang history back and forth: "Santa Ana is a fool. No man of reason can talk to him." Canned narrative alternates with archaic sex scenes...
Then I was in ninth grade and allowed to penetrate the sanctum of Miss Davis's room. Decorated in archaic Romanesque, it featured four rows, divided two and two. The boys sat in the left two rows in alphabetical order; the girls on the right. Above the chalk-board was a handprinted sign: "Time will pass, will...
West Germany officially loosened its chastity belt a notch with the ratification by the Bundesrat of a new German sex law. Part of a general overhaul of the country's archaic 19th century penal code, the sweeping reforms were finally hammered out after three years of angry debate in the West German Parliament. Said a spokesman for Chancellor Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party: "All the law does is catch up with the times and protect the freedom of the individual to sexual determination...