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...wish that were true. In this modern age most farmers still follow the archaic method of taking their produce to market and asking "What will you give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1972 | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Like many another evangelical Christian, Kenneth Taylor liked to gather his family round him after dinner in their Wheaton, Ill., farmhouse for evening prayer and a bit of Bible reading. The trouble was, Taylor observed some years ago, that his children could not quickly grasp the archaic English of the King James Bible. An ordained minister who was then director of the fundamentalist Moody Press in Chicago, Taylor decided to try paraphrasing the Scriptures for his youngsters-an experiment to which the children-then numbering nine-quickly responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Plowman's Bible? | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...Amazing Grace seems part of a minitrend toward the archaic on the charts. Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken (No. 8) is an old English school hymn. Todd Rundgren's I Saw the Light (No. 16) is a traditional and familiar gospel song. For the ultimate reach into the past, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney's next hit may be the recording he has just made of Mary Had a Little Lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piping Hot | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

Similar techniques are used in the Italian countryside, whose forest space is theoretically protected by archaic laws. Technically, speculators are prevented from building in woods. The solution: forest fires. Nearly 200,000 acres of forest were burned last summer, and Italia Nostra estimates that at least one of every ten fires-especially on valuable land around resorts like Portofino -was set by landowners or prospective buyers. So blatant is the ruin of "protected" space that the Mayor of Pescasseroli, a town in the Abruzzi National Park, issued permits for speculative hotels and villas that involved the felling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Can Italy be Saved from Itself? | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...first edition turned out to have occasional variations in notation from the version in use today, betraying even more clearly the song's derivation from an 18th century hit tune called To Anacreon In Heaven. At the same time, as sung by the Hill Chorale, the slightly archaic harmonies had a classical dignity that suggested the effect the song may have had on those who heard it first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Time Trip | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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