Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exterior Signs. It is now. Aware that unbalanced government budgets were a key factor in Brazil's rampaging inflation, President Humberto Castello Branco and his revolutionary military regime rammed through a tough universal income-tax law that set realistic tax rates* streamlined the archaic collection system, made tax dodgers liable to two years in prison. In to run the operation moved Orlando Travancas, 47, a reform-bent tax official who has weeded out dishonest inspectors, set up a school to train new ones, and installed ten computers to keep track of returns...
...spectators. An estimated 8,500,000 Americans play tennis, but only a handful ever attend top amateur or professional tournaments. The reason, according to James Van Alen, 63, president of the tennis Hall of Fame, is the sport's 85-year-old scoring system, which belabors spectators with archaic terminology ("love," "deuce," "advantage"), places no time limit on the duration of a match, and encourages a brand of play-the wham-slam "big game"-that often makes the match a bore to watch. Van Alen's answer: a totally different scoring system called VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified...
...RENAISSANCE BAND (Decca) contains pictures and demonstrations of archaic instruments such as the sackbut, the shawm and the krummhorn, which are used to play dances by Michael Praetorious, madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, and a solemn "battle symphony" by Heinrich Isaac probably performed during a play by Lorenzo the Magnificent (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have composed a similar work). Recorded by the New York Pro Musica under the direction of its founder, the late Noah Greenberg...
Girls who live in the dorms at Harvard Summer School are subjected to regulations which would be considered archaic at Radcliffe...
...only rationale for this archaic rule is that new alumni do not know the members of earlier classes who appear on the ballots. But then it is hardly likely that the younger alumni will get to know their elders any better in the five years after commencement than they did before--that a member of the Class of '66 will know the Class of '40 any better any better in 1971 than now. The passage of time will only dim his memory, cloud his recollection of passing acquaintances and faces, so that the name of his classmate down the hall...