Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spiritual heritage of western civilization is inscribed within the boundaries of the garden and the city. Eden and the New Jerusalem constitute visions of Paradise that are archetypes for the setting of everyday life from archaic Greece to twentieth-century America. In that each culture possesses its own "construction" of paradise, an examination of these (culture and construction) in parallel is the most rewarding premise for an exploration of human interaction with the visual environment...
...temples of archaic Greece, however, engage nature rather than imitate it, and Scully traces this relationship through the successive periods that he discusses. He identifies a kind of engagement in which buildings and gardens articulate cultural and social ideas...
...Drum, a dazzling display of rhythmic virtuosity performed by the Grateful Dead drummer and a super group of percussionists from Nigeria, Brazil and India. Planet Drum, which has been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery of drums, synthesizers, Chinese cymbals, rattles and even Mexican donkey jaws...
...flexibility of word processing programs makes typewriters completely archaic. The ability to manip ulate text, correct mistakes and save work eliminates the need for painful retyping. Computers truly do make life much easier for students...
Allied to this was the city as tomb, both futuristic and archaic, a kind of Mayan ruin referring only to itself, incomprehensible to its antlike inhabitants. This left its most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of the skyscraper age. But it also turns up in projects that were, however nominally, designed for the real world, like the huge pink mastabas of the "Metropolis" that Henri Sauvage hoped to raise beside the Seine...