Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while science advances, patients are denied what may be an effective treatment for many human ills by the persistence of antediluvian notions of the drug's ill effects and of archaic legislation. Those who oppose allowing use of marijuana as a prescription drug point to numerous studies that have accused it of horrible side effects ranging from lowering hormone levels in males to damaging brain tissue. Many of these studies, though, are methodologically dubious; the political requirements of funding never take precedence over sound research technique. Generally, these studies use extremely high dosage levels to establish harmful effects. Few establish...
Whereas some other cities, notably Detroit, have plunked sports stadiums in the suburbs, Louisiana decided early on that the dome's maximum economic benefit could be realized by placing it in a seedy, archaic industrial area (which is no more). Most of all, its accessibility benefits the cus tomer; indeed, it was designed as a "people place." As the plans evolved, it was agreed that it would not be just a foot ball palace, but a multipurpose sporting-business-conven tion-cultural center that could revitalize the sensual, sickly Blanche DuBois of cities...
...could roar thunderously in the Te Deum, so Berlioz could write with reverent calm in this exquisite tapestry on the early events in Jesus' life. The music is kept deliberately simple by a chamberistic use of the orchestra and frequent resort to medieval modes and other archaic devices. Yet how fresh, urgent and devoted the result, notably in the central section-The Flight into Egypt. Continuing his pioneering Berlioz cycle, Colin Davis achieves one of his grandest accomplishments on disc...
Advocates argue that a constitutional amendment would add force to the thrust for equal rights. Women would find it easier to challenge archaic laws that in some states put them at a disadvantage in such matters as inheritance and property rights. They also would be in a better position to win law suits against employers charged with discrimination in hiring and promotions. Equally important, ERA would add a certain symbolic weight to the women's movement...
...profiles of his girls have the slightly awkward purity of quattrocento medallion portraits. Nude in Profile, 1977, displays her pubescent body with the columnar grace of a figure by Piero della Francesca; light flows around the shallow curve of the wall and invests her outline with a hushed archaic permanence; many coats and scumblings of paint have given her flesh the porous, mat quality of fresco plaster. Balthus' art is about stabilizing the eye, and giving measure, proportion and distance to what it extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their...