Word: archaicism
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Hominy & Homilies. Last week, at the Southern Governors' annual conference at Asheville, N.C., Maddox launched into archaic harangues against federal guidelines to desegregate schools, denounced the war on poverty ("It's breeding a generation of bums"), sneered at his fellow Governors for bowing to the "King" in Washington. He also voted down an ambitious long-term program for complete integration of the South's Negro colleges. Maddox's peers either snubbed him or ignored him, and an Atlanta Constitution cartoon showed the Governor returning from the meeting with a black...
...game's archaic scoring system may be replaced with something akin to James Van Alen's VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), in which zero is zero, a point is a point, one game of 31 points decides a match, and both spectators and players are spared such dreary marathons as one of the doubles contests at last month's Newport Hall of Fame Invitational. The match lasted 6 hrs. 10 min., and the final score was 3-6, 49-41, 22-20. With that ever-present possibility, it is no wonder that the West Side...
...weekly "organ recitals" for comparison of diagnoses and autopsy findings. This still might not increase the number of autopsies substantially, for in most states, if death occurs in a hospital or is not "suspicious," an autopsy is illegal without consent of the next of kin. Dr. Prutting suggests that "archaic state laws" should be revised so that consent is not required, and the dead can aid the living...
...from flotsam, the 2,500-year-old artifact from the once-barbarian state of Ch'u in China's Middle Yangtze region promises to provide a key for deciphering archaic Chinese. It may shed light on links between early China and civilizations of the Pacific and South America. And it should surely yield an understanding of early Chinese legends, calendars, religion, society and astrological beliefs...
...reason for the rush was that New York State was trying to simplify things. In an attempt to modernize the most archaic divorce law in the U.S. (adultery only), the New York legislature last year rewrote the statute to include such flexible grounds as cruel and inhuman treatment and separation for two years. But having made divorce easier at home, it added a murky section that seemed to imply that quickie out-of-state divorces will no longer be recognized. The section will not take effect until Sept. 1, and the approaching deadline was what had everyone going south...