Word: archaicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southern Africa the climate was cooler than it is today. Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans. Neanderthal man had not yet emerged, but intelligent beings already roamed the savanna, upright creatures known today as archaic Homo sapiens, who could fashion crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly on a patch of light that...
Student Two: I am the person who is majoring in this subject. I will be disgraced if I'm not able to show the class that I know more than the section leader about this subject. I piss off everyone by discoursing on archaic usages of every term, and offering short bibliographical notes on many obscure names...
...inside the old, and there was no question of designing it in the manner of Laloux. "It could not be a pastiche," says Lachenaud. "The station itself was pastiche, a 19th century parody of what the 18th century was thought to be -- iron and glass technology layered over with archaic decor. So we knew we could make no compromise with the original design...
...longer Van Gogh stayed in Provence the closer he thought he got to its "essence": its high tender color and sometimes violently modeled forms, its archaic antiquity and, above all, its light. In Arles the initial shock of the landscape, impacted in citron and chrome yellows, had dominated his palette. But once he was inside the asylum at Saint-Remy, a different and more reflective way of looking at the landscape around him took over. "What I dream of in my best moments," he wrote, "is not so much striking color effects as once more the half-tones...
...best man win? In politics, that expression threatens to become archaic. Three major contests on Election Day will be all-female affairs. Mikulski and Chavez are only the second pair of women in U.S. history to win the nominations of both major parties in a Senate campaign.* In Nebraska, State Treasurer Kay Orr, a Republican, is running against former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis, a Democrat, in the country's first all-woman gubernatorial race. In Maryland's Second Congressional District, Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert Kennedy's daughter, will oppose incumbent Helen Delich Bentley...