Word: archaicism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...during Stalin's last illness, Soviet doctors reported officially that Big Brother was being submitted to leeches be sides other therapeutic means no less archaic. We could ask then if their intention was to cure or to kill the patient. They were in earnest. Seventeen years later a patient of mine, strong enough to survive anything, told me. having just arrived from Moscow, that last winter my Russian colleagues found nothing better for her pneumonia than syrups, poultices and those Jacks-of-all-trades of Soviet medicine-leeches...
...outset that I do not like the CFIA. From what I have been able to find out, it seems that its work is largely devoted-under liberal cover-to perpetuating and supporting archaic and oppressive regimes among the United States client nations. That, however, does not mean that I was glad to see it bombed...
...last major survivor of the literary generation that included Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Faulkner. His work has been slighted in recent years. Politics-the central theme and passion of much of his writing-helped to undermine his reputation. Read today, Dos Passes' earlier works often seem as archaic as the rhetoric of Wobblies. But there are also passages that seem eerily prescient: "All right we are two nations. America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into...
Cast in the old-fashioned molds of aria, duet, octet, chorus, etc., Les Troyens looks a bit archaic on paper. But in performance, the music churns with energy. Berlioz's restraint and sharp musical delineation of character are on a level with Mozart, Gluck and Wagner at their best...
...special urgency to Mayor John V. Lindsay's impassioned speech before the ABA delegates in St. Louis. Stunned by the jail riots in his city and prodded by Chief Justice Burger's analysis of a crippled judicial system, Lindsay pleaded with the lawyers to help repair the archaic machinery of justice...