Word: archaice
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Until recently, Belaúnde believed that he could afford to ignore the Senderistas, a small band of no more than 2,000 students and Indian peasants who claim a tenuous adherence to Maoism while following archaic tribal customs of the Incas. Since last December, however, the well-trained insurgents have become increasingly violent. They have killed nine policemen, seemingly at random, and terrorized mountain villages by executing their leaders...
James Glazier '83, "The Archaic Etruscan Relief Revetment." Professor David Gordon Mitten...
...last years Kenneth Clark's energies as a writer waned, and it is hard for anyone born after 1950 to grasp what a role he once played in art criticism. He was pushing 80 when he died on May 21, and he seemed an archaic figure, the last of the gentlemen aesthetes, a man who-as it was said after Civilisation went to air nearly 15 years ago-tended to discuss the Renaissance as though he had commissioned it. Yet no English writer since Roger Fry, perhaps not since John Ruskin, had more effect on the way a general...
...which you cannot see because I am standing in front of it." It was also felt that Clark's image of history as a saga of noble names and sublime objects without much regard for the shaping forces of economics or Realpolitik was, to say the least, archaic...
Lizandick (liz n 'dik) n. pl. [contemporary usage fr. Liz and Dick, often followed by exclamation point, i.e., Lizandick!] 1. Archaic. Mythic American actress and Welsh actor whose names were eternally coupled despite their celebrated uncoupling(s) 2. Aging and forever expanding histrionic duo whose sum is greater than their individual parts, and whose mutual moves are perpetually played out in public (did you hear that ~ started a limited-run revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives in Boston last week?). 3. Any pair of people who come together, split, come together, split, until they seem...