Word: archaicism
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Like a Pharaoh's tomb, the stage is stocked with the relics of a bygone life: a clutter of armoires and grandfather clocks, quaint archaic radios and phonographs, fringed lampshades and a golden harp. A man in a policeman's uniform slowly enters the attic room and sniffs the dust of decades. He walks over to the harp and plucks at a string. It is slack, jangled and flat-an omen of the theatrical evening to come...
...grandfathers "remembered the Maine" and ended an oppressive, archaic colonial empire. Apparently we're going to "negotiate about the Pueblo" and accomplish nothing, except little inconveniences like prison camps and death for 83 Americans who were serving for the rest...
Capital punishment is dying in the U.S. There were only two executions last year, just one the year before. A concerted attack is being waged on grounds that it is cruel and inhuman vengeance, does not work as a deterrent and is otherwise archaic. Suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund have blocked all executions in Florida and California until the question of whether or not the death sentence is still constitutional can be resolved in court...
...bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin, as a Fascist and dismissed-a melodramatic device so archaic as to seem almost piquant...
...Palace caretaker) and their pay ($232.80 a year), the most modest thing about Britain's poets laureate has been their state poetry. In the age of the Hollow Man, task-basket verse celebrating a monarch's birthday or the puberty of a prince sounds at best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged that the post be filled because "it does no harm and may, who knows...