Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said God is dead and the Catholic Church is archaic and unprogressive? He and it are very much alive in every fiber of Dan and Phil Berrigan [Jan. 25] -in their courageous mad struggle for some kind of human decency...
...American History," with its sprawling dioramas and wide range of loaded subjects, will be taken as propaganda, or history, or reality, or radical chic, or simply as an art show. Compared to the immediacy of film or videotape, history painting of any kind-even Rivers'-seems a curiously archaic approach to urgent political reality. But it is a sign of the times that it could be commissioned and put on in Texas...
LAWTON CHILES, 40, Democrat, Fla., terms himself a "progressive conservative" representing "the fresh breeze blowing in the South." He accepts civil rights, champions revenue sharing, not in an archaic states' rights sense but out of conviction that the Government can win confidence only by restoring control to local levels. Calm and introspective, he brings a demonstrated concern for legislative reform...
...media must be liberated, must be removed from private ownership and commercial sponsorship, must be placed in the service of all humanity. We must make the media believable. We must assume conscious control over the videosphere. We must wrench the intermedia network free from the archaic and corrupt intelligence that now dominates...
Caging has crippled the entire system. Burdened with vast forts that refuse to crumble (25 prisons are more than 100 years old), wardens cope with as many as 4,000 inmates, compared with the 100 that many penologists recommend. Archaic buildings make it difficult to separate tractable from intractable men, a key step toward rehabilitation. The big numbers pit a minority against a majority, the guards against the prisoners. Obsessed with "control," guards try to keep inmates divided, often by using the strong to cow the weak. The result is an inmate culture, enforced by fist or knife, that spurs...