Word: archaicism
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...personality makes for a winning team," says the 49ers' Ken Willard. "It's the swinging feeling around the clubhouse. A feeling that they're them and I'm me." His teammate Gene Washington, who grooves on $350 Oscar de la Renta suits, deplores the "archaic regimen" of traditional football-club rules. "Room checks at 11 p.m. on a Friday night before a Sunday game is Cub Scout stuff. I think professional players are above that. They will separate themselves from the team if they don't take care of themselves. They will be judged...
...hours in defiance of presidential appeals to return and belated congressional legislation barring a strike until March. To soften labor's resistance, Congress also took an extraordinary step: it ordered an immediate 13½% wage increase, part of it retroactive to last January, but let the unions' archaic work rules stand unchallenged. Still unsatisfied, the chief labor spokesman, Charles Leslie Dennis, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, called off the walkout only after a federal court ordered his union to pay $200,000 for every day it struck beyond the first 24 hours...
...Senate colleagues not long ago. "And we are changing with them. Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Right on, Senator Scott! Congress may be changing, but at what a pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress, whether liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, from working...
...Stein, "is the oldest nation in the world." America's architecture, sadly, bears out the comment. In any American city, amidst the incoherence of unrelated structures our inability to appeal to any potential modern sensibility is conspicuous. The descendants of immigrants and pioneers continue to raise disfunctional monuments in archaic styles...
...week Hoover came in for some insults that, he decided, demanded his personal attention. In a new book called Crime in America (see BOOKS), former Attorney General Ramsey Clark claimed, among other things, that Hoover ran the FBI with a "self-centered concern for his own reputation" and preferred archaic Red-hunting to effective war on organized crime...