Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cross, I should be interested to learn how the two young men (Mr. George E. Engdahl Jr. and Mr. Robert M. Conway) have fared since they dared to write -and have published -a letter [Dec. 2] correctly stating that the stand of the Roman Catholic Church is "narrow-minded, archaic," etc., rebirth control. Their correct appraisal is equaled only by their outright courage -for I can recall the day when to voice, much less to publish, a critique of the church, by a student within one of its institutions, was to have culminated in immediate expulsion -preceded by a dictated...
Other fine objects from the same 1931 expedition were "found" in the same glass case: a bronze sun-disk, a bronze bell shaped like a football, and a collection of archaic seals and beads...
...giving reasons for "firing" a student, the old Administrative Board used to throw students out for what was termed "ungentlemanly conduct." Recently, however, ungentlemanly conduct (commonly known as the elastic clause) has been replaced by "irresponsible behavior," no less all-inclusive, but somehow less archaic...
...deliver them still hot at an Indiana rolling mill, but mix-ups and wrongly thrown switches sometimes cause freight cars to get lost for as much as seven weeks. High-speed, $15 million ocean ships lie idle for days in port while they are loaded by means of archaic slings. No less an authority than Najeeb Halaby, former head of the Federal Aviation Agency, insists that the U.S. really has no system of transportation at all, only a mishmash of "some of the best components anywhere...
...made for the law but the law for the Jew." Israel's Deputy Chief Justice Moshe Silberg believes that the time has come for a new Halakah code that would be "a secular legal creation based on principles of Jewish law with a clear dissociation from all the archaic layers that were heaped on Jewish law. The task will be to select the wheat from the chaff, to cut away the dried branches from the tree, which is still full of life...