Word: archaice
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...that took a full page in the New York Times last week and is also appearing elsewhere, Gardner explained Cause's cause: "One of our aims will be to revitalize politics and government. The need is great. State governments are mostly feeble. City government is archaic. The Congress of the U.S. is in grave need of overhaul. The parties are becoming useless as instruments of the popular will." Gardner's initial attack is on those last two targets...
...publishing sneaked paparazzi pictures of Brigitte Bardot toplessly sunbathing. Unlike Hefner, Tattilo does not give sexual advice to readers who write in, but she says: "Playmen was started to fill a gap in the Italian press. I hope Playmen will contribute to changing, in an intelligent way, certain archaic attitudes toward love and sex among Italian men and women...
...Your article did not mention the basic reasons for Women's Liberation: the job and pay discrimination, the archaic laws in some states, and other irritants that today's woman faces. Nor did you mention, except in passing, the many women interested in Women's Lib who do not engage in the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men." By these omissions, you do a disservice to the moderate individuals in the movement. JOHN A. GRIFFITHS Iowa City, Iowa...
Typical Sangfroid, the board conveyed its misgivings to Seaborg. Under the A.A.A.S.'s archaic rules, it could not do anything more. Nor would Seaborg. He had already turned down an offer of the A.A.A.S. presidential candidacy twice before because of his other obligations, and did not care to bow out this time. In fact, the only casualty of the dispute was a bystander: Dan Greenberg, 38, the news editor of the A.A.A.S. publication Science, and one of the most astute observers of the U.S. scientific establishment. Urged by the board members to bring their doubts about Seaborg...
...somehow found time for substantial work of his own, notably the popular Treasury of the World's Great Letters (1940). Perhaps his most inventive idea was The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature, a version pepped up by the elimination of routine "begats" and archaic punctuation. S. and S. published numerous how-to manuals as well as Will Durant's exhaustive histories, and also took a lead in bringing the paperback into general circulation...