Word: archaicism
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...RENAISSANCE BAND (Decca) contains pictures and demonstrations of archaic instruments such as the sackbut, the shawm and the krummhorn, which are used to play dances by Michael Praetorious, madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, and a solemn "battle symphony" by Heinrich Isaac probably performed during a play by Lorenzo the Magnificent (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have composed a similar work). Recorded by the New York Pro Musica under the direction of its founder, the late Noah Greenberg...
Girls who live in the dorms at Harvard Summer School are subjected to regulations which would be considered archaic at Radcliffe...
...only rationale for this archaic rule is that new alumni do not know the members of earlier classes who appear on the ballots. But then it is hardly likely that the younger alumni will get to know their elders any better in the five years after commencement than they did before--that a member of the Class of '66 will know the Class of '40 any better any better in 1971 than now. The passage of time will only dim his memory, cloud his recollection of passing acquaintances and faces, so that the name of his classmate down the hall...
...Archaic Taxes. The trouble with the great majority of such projects is lack of vision and planning. "There isn't a metropolitan area in the U.S. that has a comprehensive plan to accommodate its growth," says Baltimore Developer James Rouse. "The best prospect we have is that we will become a nation of Los Angeleses." More than 800 U.S. cities have modernized their housing and zoning codes in the past few years, and Houston is now the only major city that has allowed itself to soar and sprawl without zoning controls of any kind...
...there are still 5,000,000 substandard houses in cities-nearly all of them without running water or indoor toilets-and in some areas the number of barely habitable homes continues to rise. In New York alone, substandard houses have increased from 420,000 to 520,000 since 1960. Archaic taxing methods actually discourage slumlords from improving their properties, since they would then be assessed at a higher rate...