Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that took a full page in the New York Times last week and is also appearing elsewhere, Gardner explained Cause's cause: "One of our aims will be to revitalize politics and government. The need is great. State governments are mostly feeble. City government is archaic. The Congress of the U.S. is in grave need of overhaul. The parties are becoming useless as instruments of the popular will." Gardner's initial attack is on those last two targets...
...publishing sneaked paparazzi pictures of Brigitte Bardot toplessly sunbathing. Unlike Hefner, Tattilo does not give sexual advice to readers who write in, but she says: "Playmen was started to fill a gap in the Italian press. I hope Playmen will contribute to changing, in an intelligent way, certain archaic attitudes toward love and sex among Italian men and women...
...hodgepodge of uncoordinated institutions run independently by almost every governmental unit in the U.S. Pacesetting federal institutions (20,000 prisoners) range from maximum-security bastilles like Atlanta Penitentiary to a no-walls unit for tame young offenders in Seagoville, Texas. The states offer anything from Alabama's archaic road gangs to California's Men's Colony West, one of the nation's two prisons for oldsters. There are forestry camps for promising men and assorted detention centers for 14,000 women. Some juvenile institutions are the best of the lot because reformers get the most political support at that level...
...only 8% are black. To compound Indiana State's age and racial tensions, only a third of the inmates actually work. Boredom is chronic. The prison has only 27 rehabilitation workers; job training is absurd. Since the state provides few tools, vocational classes make do with donated equipment: archaic sewing machines, obsolete typewriters, TV sets dating to Milton Berle...
...Your article did not mention the basic reasons for Women's Liberation: the job and pay discrimination, the archaic laws in some states, and other irritants that today's woman faces. Nor did you mention, except in passing, the many women interested in Women's Lib who do not engage in the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men." By these omissions, you do a disservice to the moderate individuals in the movement. JOHN A. GRIFFITHS Iowa City, Iowa...