Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gritty district of Bridgeport, where he continues to live in a modest bungalow. After starting out as a secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago's muscles and nerves is deeply intuitive. But it is growing archaic, as the mayor's lines to the Negro community atrophy and he continues to rule in the personalistic style of a benevolent Irish despot of the wards...
...freedoms and fulfillments is sweeping Communist, capitalist and ex-colonial nations alike. In spired by mass communications, tutored by the pioneering young, millions want more-and feel more frustrated when affluence, equality and education are too slowly achieved. In this heated situation, old institutions are too often archaic and unresponsive to change. Instead of plunging forward with history, the Kremlin fears the Czech disease of freedom. The Vatican is impelled to ban the pill. Congress rejects effective gun regulation. Whatever the issue or nation, something loosely called the "establishment" resists aspiration and innovation. The global result is growing impatience with...
...felt since the Depression. People challenge the system. Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd Jr., for one, last week declared that conventions are a "political carnival that should be abolished." More seriously, many ask whether the present ramshackle setup, from confused nominating procedures all the way up to the archaic Electoral College, can really be relied on to represent the majority will. Of more immediate interest to politicians is the fact that many voters seem to strain against a two-party system; the weakening of party loyalties and the talk of new parties, while long a fixture...
...leaders, it was comforting. "In these troubled times," said New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke, "it is helpful to have reassurance of faith. The Holy Father gave us just that." But many liberal members of the Pope's flock were dismayed by the new document's archaic theology and terminology, which they felt would do little to make Christianity more relevant to modern man. Commented the Dutch Catholic newspaper De Tijd: "He wanted to break bread, but his words are like stones in our stomachs...
...belief itself seems to be dying, suggests Nourissier: there is a miasma of decaying faiths, whether in Jacobinism or in the church, that leaves the air redolent with cynicism. Even the material world is forbidding. Citizens must seek treatment in hospital buildings that may date from the 17th century, archaic highways are jammed, and telephones do not work- a trivial complaint, perhaps, but symbolic of a more profound lack of communication between groups and generations. "Weary and shrewish" Paris, the heart of the country, has become, "beyond question, the most exhausting capital in the world...