Word: archaicism
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...have to offer something more than the same archaic marriage pattern, the same mind-draining guilt," says Mrs. Boswell. "This bill is particularly aimed at helping youth," adds Mrs. Lee. "Across the country today, young people are living together, Shacking up,' as they call it, and disregarding old-style marriage vows. We're also hearing from many older people who were victimized by the present divorce setup. Personally, I'm for marriage-mine was a success -but marriage is under threat. Let's find out what it takes to adapt or modify...
...political content and intention of the students' acts were dismissed as "irrelevant." The context in which the CRR judged was not that of a modern university in its relations to the real world but rather of an idealized "academic community" founded upon archaic illusions and thus placed in unreal isolation...
...functionary surrenders, calls off the troops and moves out. The pocket revolution has succeeded, and now the village sinks back into its archaic life. Only one girl, Rima (Leila Schenna), cannot return to the old ways. Somehow she has responded to the clamorous century outside the village walls. In a galvanic move, she runs away into the parched land, farther, farther, until she becomes an imperceptible part...
...said God is dead and the Catholic Church is archaic and unprogressive? He and it are very much alive in every fiber of Dan and Phil Berrigan [Jan. 25] -in their courageous mad struggle for some kind of human decency...
...American History," with its sprawling dioramas and wide range of loaded subjects, will be taken as propaganda, or history, or reality, or radical chic, or simply as an art show. Compared to the immediacy of film or videotape, history painting of any kind-even Rivers'-seems a curiously archaic approach to urgent political reality. But it is a sign of the times that it could be commissioned and put on in Texas...