Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stein, "is the oldest nation in the world." America's architecture, sadly, bears out the comment. In any American city, amidst the incoherence of unrelated structures our inability to appeal to any potential modern sensibility is conspicuous. The descendants of immigrants and pioneers continue to raise disfunctional monuments in archaic styles...
...week Hoover came in for some insults that, he decided, demanded his personal attention. In a new book called Crime in America (see BOOKS), former Attorney General Ramsey Clark claimed, among other things, that Hoover ran the FBI with a "self-centered concern for his own reputation" and preferred archaic Red-hunting to effective war on organized crime...
...that Ike was the last man who could have said with any safety: "I am America!" Richard Nixon would not dare to try the formulanor would Georges Pompidou, for that matter. The U.S. has accommodated itself to a life without national heroes. De Gaulle was splendidly archaic, and in any case, as Hawthorne said, "A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world...
...afford the archaic definition of men as the warrior. This extremity of virility is dangerous to life itself...
...orchestra has broken away from the standard concert repertoire, it has done so deliberately. "We're trying to be relevant to the community rather than to fit an archaic form," says one orchestra spokesman. The most interesting innovation is a new kind of program for children, which Goldman calls "Children's Concerts, in which we really have open rehearsals, in which children can wander up on the stage. We'll let them wander among the performers, touch the instruments, really be open...