Word: archaice
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...that Ike was the last man who could have said with any safety: "I am America!" Richard Nixon would not dare to try the formulanor would Georges Pompidou, for that matter. The U.S. has accommodated itself to a life without national heroes. De Gaulle was splendidly archaic, and in any case, as Hawthorne said, "A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world...
...afford the archaic definition of men as the warrior. This extremity of virility is dangerous to life itself...
...orchestra has broken away from the standard concert repertoire, it has done so deliberately. "We're trying to be relevant to the community rather than to fit an archaic form," says one orchestra spokesman. The most interesting innovation is a new kind of program for children, which Goldman calls "Children's Concerts, in which we really have open rehearsals, in which children can wander up on the stage. We'll let them wander among the performers, touch the instruments, really be open...
Agathon was once a handsome and ambitious academic-political young man, an Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read...
...their mouths. The horrifying experience of being beaten, kicked and truncheoned out of the courtroom building by a cadre of plain-clothesmen and uniformed police exceeded any verbal demonstration of how far the City of Cambridge or the Harvard Administration is prepared to go in the defense of archaic, ill-defined laws...