Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yorty must work with and within one of the nation's most bewildering governmental structures. The job of running the city itself, defined by an archaic, 41-year-old charter, is split between the mayor and its 15-member city council in such a way that neither can exercise effective powers. Further diluting the mayor's authority is the county board of supervisors, five elected officials who have the last word on many countywide affairs. As the Senate's cities experts discovered last week, city government is confined largely to such functions as police and fire protection...
Director Nicholas Webster made excellent use of his cameras and of the simple but solid sets. The costumes, inspired by archaic statues and vase paintings, were well designed and made of top-grade material. And finally, a word must be said for the stunning quality of the film's Anscocolor processing...
...Easy as Lying. The recorder derives its name from the archaic meaning of the verb "record," that is, "to sing like a bird." Its origins have been traced to the 12th century, but its heyday came in the late 17th and early 18th century, when Bach, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi and Handel wrote a wealth of music for it. Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton and Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced...
...husband's estate to his relatives. Equally alarming to newly affluent Americans is the high cost of dying with a will. For good reasons, a will must be proved valid (probated) in state courts known variously as probate, surrogate, orphans or chancery. Unfortunately, many such courts' archaic methods can tie up an estate for years, devour 20% or more of its value in legal fees-and force the dead to subsidize politicians in one of U.S. law's darkest scandals...
...years it has been an unwritten rule, perfectly understandable although rather archaic, that the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra must not perform the works of German Composer Richard Wagner. Richard Strauss was verboten as well until 1953, when Violinist Jascha Heifetz played a Strauss sonata -a performance that later moved a zealot to clout him on the right wrist with an iron bar outside his hotel. Now the orchestra's directors have decided that "the time has come for a change . . . because of the paramount demands of freedom of art." So, presumably, Wagner and Strauss will now be heard in Israel...