Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agathon was once a handsome and ambitious academic-political young man, an Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read...
...their mouths. The horrifying experience of being beaten, kicked and truncheoned out of the courtroom building by a cadre of plain-clothesmen and uniformed police exceeded any verbal demonstration of how far the City of Cambridge or the Harvard Administration is prepared to go in the defense of archaic, ill-defined laws...
...during Stalin's last illness, Soviet doctors reported officially that Big Brother was being submitted to leeches be sides other therapeutic means no less archaic. We could ask then if their intention was to cure or to kill the patient. They were in earnest. Seventeen years later a patient of mine, strong enough to survive anything, told me. having just arrived from Moscow, that last winter my Russian colleagues found nothing better for her pneumonia than syrups, poultices and those Jacks-of-all-trades of Soviet medicine-leeches...
...outset that I do not like the CFIA. From what I have been able to find out, it seems that its work is largely devoted-under liberal cover-to perpetuating and supporting archaic and oppressive regimes among the United States client nations. That, however, does not mean that I was glad to see it bombed...
...last major survivor of the literary generation that included Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Faulkner. His work has been slighted in recent years. Politics-the central theme and passion of much of his writing-helped to undermine his reputation. Read today, Dos Passes' earlier works often seem as archaic as the rhetoric of Wobblies. But there are also passages that seem eerily prescient: "All right we are two nations. America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into...