Word: archaicism
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Splotches of color danced and melted into each other on the walls. From the silhouetted forms of musicians onstage, archaic strains of medieval chansons overlapped with the thumps and twangs of contemporary rock. At the side, electronic sounds erupted from a glittering electronic synthesizer that resembled a far-out version of the Radio City Music Hall's mighty Wurlitzer. Not surprisingly, the program notes listed a consulting psychologist...
There are, however, interesting ways to use the unusual exhibit. Comparisons can be made between the Greek-influenced pottery and statues of the Archaic through Hellenistic period to be found here and those to be found in the Classical galleries. Compare the intricate detail and delicacy of Ottoman armor with the medieval armor of Western Europe, or a section of the Ottoman Koran with a medieval manuscript...
...overseas arm of the Manhattan investment banking house. Last month Ball even suggested that multinational companies be allowed to escape the control of individual nations through a treaty creating an "international companies law." Only thus, Ball argues, can global enterprises avoid "the stifling restrictions imposed on commerce by the archaic limits of nation states" and realize their potential to "use the world's resources with maximum efficiency...
...freelance writer, describes a kind of Huck Finn-Holden Caulfield boyhood and coming of age in Florida, Connecticut and Manhattan, in the midst of a rather eccentric family. It is the most obvious of themes, but Conroy brings it off remarkably well, with an almost archaic narrative skill...
...entire, awful delusion. I've no desire to make a rational, scholarly demonstration of this. I hope that humans will make some portion of this effort for themselves, take into account the full seriousness of the occupations of their lives, and act not in accordance with either false archaic moral high commands or cynical manipulation, both of which are in the air like smog, but in accordance with the world's possibilities, with what people can do, can make of these bodies so excellent for loving, exploring, and dying a more fitting death than the nuclear, the explosive, the incendiary...