Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room environment, Confrontation, 1978. Here the viewer is excluded from the central table, which is strewn with breasts, remnants of latex-covered food and other morsels, by a ring of white wooden boxes. These taper toward the top and, like versions of the dolmens in archaic ritual sites, press to be read as abstracted effigies of the human figure: a ring of watchers, backs shutting out the audience, absorbed in an obscure ritual...
This sort of space-cadet's anti-intellectualism is especially troubling at a time when real-life intellectuals are suddenly finding themselves threatened by rigid fundamentalists. Proponents of the bankrupt theory of creationism have launched a surprisingly successful crusade against teachers of evolution. Stern schoolboards have revived the archaic practice of book-banning; their hysterical search for evil influence in the most innocent quarters calls to mind nothing so much as a swinging single's fear of herpes...
...Eleanor have a physical relationship with "Hick"? Lash's cautious but firm conclusion is that she did not (though Hickok's sexual orientation was more clearly lesbian), and it seems likely that he is right. To cover the situation, he resurrects the archaic term "Boston marriage," meaning a close and longstanding, but not necessarily sexual, relationship between two women. The fact is-and this is the main subject of Lash's new book-that throughout her life E.R. carried on a series of intense and rather schoolgirlish friendships with a variety of women and men, none...
...beginning, according to Wilber, was the archaic stage of consciousness, the first stage that could be called human. Wilber uses the image of the uroboros--the serpent devouring its own tail--to illustrate this stage's total self-absorption. The dichotomies of Subject and Object, and Self and World had not yet been made. This stage is similar to Piager's description of the early stages of an infant's cognitive development...
Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward the European Community, which last week issued an important rebuff to a Belgian plan to restructure the nation's archaic steel industry at a cost of $1.1 billion and 5,000 lost jobs. Two major trade unions in Wallonia promptly began a weeklong series of strikes and demonstrations...