Word: archaicism
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...Novelist Becker (The Keep, The Union) indicates in her first documentary book, the Baader-Meinhof group sprouted from the roots of German student protest against archaic regulations and extreme overcrowding in the universities. But after West Berlin police shot a student demonstrating against a visit by the Shah of Iran, protest graduated to violence. Baader had come to West Berlin to escape the draft, Meinhof to be nearer the "revolution." There, they recruited colleagues who shared some basic zealotries: West Germany's "performance society" induced mental illness in its citizens; the struggle against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam must...
...world of childhood. In a market where the purchase of 10,000 copies constitutes a bestseller, the Potter titles (23 volumes; Frederick Warne; $2.95 each) continue to sell at the rate of some 300,000 copies a year. Adults often complain that Beatrix Potter's minibooks have grown archaic and irrelevant. Children know better; for them there will always be some chamber of the mind where it is 1902 and where, if a stick awaits, so does a carrot at the end of a long day's mischief...
...past 200 years, more than 500 proposals have been made by Congress to reform it. Last week, for the first time in this century, a President put the weight of his office behind the notion that it should be abolished altogether. Jimmy Carter proposed that the arcane and archaic Electoral College be replaced with direct, popular-vote presidential elections. He called the change "an issue of overriding Government significance...
...number of groups who actively support the movement for freedom of sexual and affectional preference. Supporting groups include the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, the American Friends Service Committee and many churches. The ACLU has published a handbook outlining the rights of Gay people against archaic oppressive laws still existing in some states...
Though subdued, the voices of the right side of the brain still occasionally break through as, for example, the voices of Joan of Arc, some drug hallucinations and schizophrenia. Psychiatrists, says Jaynes, "seem to like my theory. They are literate men, and many of them say they sense something archaic in the hallucinatory voices of schizophrenics." Jaynes also folds poetry into his theory: it arose as unconscious divine speech, its mesmerizing rhythms produced by right-sided brain impulses...