Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SYLVIA MARLOWE: HARPSICHORD (Decca). The eminent harpsichordist looks to the future of her archaic instrument by commissioning new pieces by the dozen. Among them are chamber works by Ned Rorem and Elliott Carter, both contrasting the tangy harpsichord with bland woodwinds. Rorem strings together short, romantic "songs without words," while Carter builds a severe, towering structure out of tiny musical blocks. Highlight of the recording is the plangent Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello by Manuel de Falla...
After three trip's to the Supreme Court in 23 years, Connecticut's archaic (1879) birth-control law was ruled unconstitutional 7 to 2-but in a judicial free-for-all that produced six opinions and a shaky new "right of privacy" concept that is bound to baffle judges for many more years...
...version of my third line, however, runs "Ah, would that Harvard Yard were paradise now," and this not only adds two words and an extra metrical foot to the line but also (and here I speak) with all the pedantry at my command) changes Fitzgerald’s rather archaic "were." meaning "would be" in the apodosis of a conditional sentence, into part of an portative construction, expressing a wish. To my car this conveys a little more fervor about the Yard than more gallantry to the cow would require. Robert Fitzgerald Lecturer on English
Every alphabet's archaic...
...become a full-scale partner in grade-school education, both public and private. Thomas Braden, chairman of California's State Board of Education, sums it up this way: "With the rapid moving of families in our nation, the interlocking economy, the sense of a national community, it is archaic to think that education is not a national task...