Word: archaicism
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...student body of Ole Miss should hang their heads in shame for their part in the fiasco. Apparently saturation with higher education hasn't dented their archaic ignorance. Ole Miss, old indeed...
Anyone invoking the Bible these days is always well advised to double-check his quotation; in the current flurry of Biblical revision and retranslation, it might have suddenly become archaic or incorrect. Last week two more additions to the changing Bible were announced...
...Archaic labor techniques, frozen in place by union prerogative. The report took wry note of a four-year labor-management negotiation in which newspaper bundle tiers agreed to the installation of new bundle-tying machines-so long as their use cost not a single...
...middle class," an expanding tier that reaches from skilled workers to professional and managerial classes. It is this segment of society that has been hardest hit by the Conservative government's white-collar wage restraints-the "pay pause"-while staunchly resisting the Labor Party's archaic doctrines and chronic schisms. Though they have made dramatic gains in by-elections during the past year, the Liberals have been dismissed as a party of protest that is still in search of its real identity. Damned by the Socialists as "traitors to the working class," its leaders were decried by Tories...
Hyppolyte Petitjean's attempt to come to terms with academic subject matter using a late Impressionist but revealing "En arcadie" Archaic figures, who might have come from Poussin, disport themselves in structurally significant positions, but the light that diffuses over them breaks up into the pointillism of Seurat. Petitjean's attempt produces something of a curiosity - it is an if the lightheaded figures form Poussin's "Baccahanale" (in Mr. Chrysler's collection) had been suddenly calmed by a curious atmosphere they did not understand, the atmosphere of "La Grande Jatte...