Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training of priests must be brought more into line with modern pedagogy-and the appointment of such men as Archbishop Garrone and Father Carrier is a step in that direction. The changes will come none too soon for the seminarians, who have lately displayed signs of restlessness at the archaic rules that still determine their training. Last year one group of students at the Greg circulated a petition demanding an updating of the curriculum, began to boycott classes when the administration gave a temporizing response. As it happens, Father Carrier is much in sympathy. One of his first acts...
...With two-thirds of the year gone, Viet Nam's four regions have committed less than half of their 1966 development budgets; in northern provinces, racked by anti-government ferment last summer, as little as 13% of these projects has been completed. Reform of Viet Nam's archaic land tenure, the key to a land-hungry peasant's loyalty, is also dragging. Though Komer claims that the Ky regime "is proceeding with distribution of 1,200,000 acres of expropriated and government-owned land," in fact it has only managed so far to hand out title deeds...
...intellectuals -that has short-circuited communications between the two. Eric Goldman resigned largely because he felt that Johnson did not really use him or even listen to him. If his concrete accomplishments seem slender-staging the White House Festival of the Arts, urging reform of the country's archaic draft machinery, counseling Johnson to give a respectful ear to the voices of national dissent-it may well be that Goldman was not permitted to do more...
...pools, while the foreman hopefully chants, "Back to the benches, mates." The title of Peter Sellers' 1959 film, I'm All Right, Jack, satirizing the idleness in "the farewell state," has become part of England's language, summing up all the nation's cosseted, truculent, archaic featherbedding...
...Archaic work attitudes, ingrained class divisions, the tolerance of amateurism and inefficiency, governments unable or unwilling to keep shop-the list of Britain's ills goes on and on. Britain, which once ruled the world, now commands admiration for the poignant knack of "muddling through." In the current crisis the British may, or may not, muddle through again. But simply surviving it like all the previous ones, without effecting a revision from top to bottom of Britain's approach to the business of earning its way in the world, would be a hollow victory. Better perhaps would...