Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hungarians waited 45 years for the free elections they finally enjoyed last week. Then they had to wait another 48 hours for the results to be funneled through an archaic telephone network and a malfunctioning computer system. When the bulk of the 7.5 million ballots were finally counted, the Hungarian Socialist Party, formerly the Communists, had won less than 11% of the vote, only enough to give it a peripheral role in the nation's future...
...following two volumes, What the Light Was Like (1985) and Archaic Figure (1987), added to Clampitt's reputation and, perhaps too readily, the verbiage at which she can be a little too facile. With her gift for images, gigantic vocabulary and command of classical literature, she might have become a parody of the ornate Gerard Manley Hopkins. Westward, thankfully, reverses that tendency. It still helps to know that Mulciber is another name for the fire god Vulcan, and that punto in aria is a kind of lace. But these poems speak directly to the reader, as if the writer...
Professor of Literature David M. Halperin, who helped organize Defeat Discrimination at MIT (DDaMIT), said his group's drive was launched in response to "a growing view that this ban on gay men and women in the military is silly and archaic...
...Dear Beth, my girlfriend is a militant feminist. Every time I try to do something romantic she accuses me of being a chauvinistic pig who indulges in archaic ritualized affection that dominates and demeans women. Is there a non-symbolic way for me to give her flowers...
...even bankrolled the recovery of our defeated enemy, Germany. In 1990 we debate whether perestroika in the Soviet Union will collapse into economic chaos and archaic nationalism, without any suggestion that we ought to do something about it. Meanwhile Senator Robert Dole wins acclaim by suggesting that what little aid we give to Eastern Europe ought to come out of our mite of aid to the rest of the world...