Word: archaicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such things." Not all the appraisal was so rhapsodic. Horace Walpole called Chatterton "an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age." Genius because Chatterton's verses were so prodigious, rogue because the young poet once wrote in an archaic style, artificially aged the paper, then claimed to have discovered the works of a bogus 15th century monk...
...childhood you don't retain. The little girl who had seen her first performance of The Nutcracker had been left behind in a flurry of cynicism and years. As I entered the Wang Center, I thought to myself how sexist the once-favorite fairy tale would seem, how archaic, how stupid...
...state stereotyped as piteously poor and prejudiced, Mississippi has shown its eagerness to cast off the plagues of racial politics, an archaic constitution and rural-dominated economics. One recent symbol: the crowning last summer of a black woman, 23-year-old Toni Seawright, as Miss Mississippi. ! Yet the attitude is hardly unanimous. Last week voters finally repealed a 97- year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage (which had already been struck down by the courts), but they did so by an embarrassingly close...
Unfortunately, it seems that an archaic rule prevents drunken Americans from dropping in on royalty. Thinking quickly, I don a fake mustache, cowboy hat, and Texas accent, and pretend to be an oil millionaire interested in paying cash for the domain of Scotland. I am courteously ushered...
...figures worked for Zurbaran, it was almost always arranged in friezelike planes parallel to the picture surface, producing a solemn, stiff effect (sometimes hieratic, more often creakingly earnest), as in his paintings of St. Hugh and the Virgin of Mercy for the Carthusians at Las Cuevas. This was an archaic, almost Gothic patterning -- inside which his genius for simplified form could produce the most ravishing episodes of detail, as in the folds and loopings of the monks' white habits in The Virgin of Mercy. It is one of the things that commends Zurbaran to modernist taste. But to Velasquez...