Word: archaicism
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...Belshazzar. The Lowell House Music Society's production at St. Paul's Catholic Church is replete with processionals, swinging censers, and echoing trumpets. Backed by the cavernous marble nave, the play is infused with a sense of the ancient and the divine. Although the beautiful voice and lovely, archaic music are enough to make the program a success, there are faults in the production which detract seriously from its overall effect...
...clearly and powerfully over the male voices, and projects almost enough femininity to balance with the rest of the cast. The chorus in solemn, hollow, and always in tune on the difficult modal chants. The small group of instruments is just wispy and scratchy enough to produce a sweetly archaic tone. And the percussion, consisting of a bell, tambourine, triangle, and drum, lends a lilting, ingenuous tone to the music as a whole...
...another's court judgments. On the other hand, no state is required to recognize the highly popular 24-hour Mexican divorce, which shuns the domicile lie and mainly involves mutual consent. The only state that fully recognizes Mexican divorce is New York-all because its own archaic law has forced more than 250,000 New Yorkers to get Mexican divorces...
...recession-affected Americans turned to compact cars, the company's Rambler was first and foremost in the domestic compact market, almost became king of the road. Just to meet the demand and get the car into customers' hands, A.M.C. President George Romney-now Governor of Michigan-permitted archaic and costly work practices to continue. A.M.C. executives now complain, with hindsight, that Romney paid lavish dividends to stockholders and perhaps too conscientiously used earnings to take the company completely out of debt. Antiquated multilevel plants in Kenosha, Wis., and Milwaukee were not replaced...
...report, the commission termed the present system "archaic, undemocratic, complex, ambiguous, indirect, and dangerous," noting that a person can become president with fewer popular votes than his major opponent. This is because the "winner-take-all" system gives each state's entire electoral vote to the leading candidate...