Word: archaicism
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Most Christians still feel content to express their prayers in 17th century English, laced with archaic court periphrastics and metaphors that derive from feudalism. On the assumption that these forms give God the reputation of being hard to talk to, the Rev. Malcolm Boyd has devised a hippier style of communicating with the Almighty. Episcopalian Boyd, who had a successful career in advertising before his ordination in 1955, and has since ministered to college students, last week published his orisons for the age in Are You Running with Me, Jesus?, a book of what Anglican Bishop John A. T. Robinson...
...most densely populated state in the Union (860.3 inhabitants per sq. mi.), New Jersey has almost as many problems as people. State-supported colleges are so crowded that 50% of the qualified applicants have to be turned away each yar. Other public institutions, from hospitals to orphanages, are archaic and inadequate. Highways are clogged, while the state road program lags for lack of funds. Though its rivers and air are hopelessly polluted, the Garden State has only a token anti-pollution program...
Although the thrust of its campaign was toward overhauling Boston's archaic educational practices and facilities, the Citizens group tamely advocated compliance with the new Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Bill. This law, passed in July, requires local school boards to submit by November 22 plans to eliminate non-white majorities in any given school...
...entered office with a 35-point program, got the Democratic majorities to give him 18 of the measures he sought and substantial portions of six others. His program emphasized increased spending for education, welfare and research coupled with inducements for industrial expansion and reform of an archaic, patronage-ridden administrative structure...
Resisting the temptation to use archaic dialogue, Whiting keeps his dialogue modern and even Soc Relish. Detailed arguments in the book often reappear contained in conversational sentences. For example, Huxley insists that men searching for evil do so from a sense of their own sinfulness. When the Archbishop in the play puts a temporary halt to Grandier's witch-trial and the chief exorcist complains that "the Archbishop has made evil impossible in this place," Whiting uncannily reveals the prosecutor's unconscious guilt...