Word: archaicism
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Tell will let Managing Editor Robert L. Richards, 50, go on running the Enterprise as he has run it for the last two years. "The paper," wrote Richards last week in an article set in the newspaper's archaic, Gay Nineties type, "will continue to violate every accepted rule of journalism." But Tell has some ideas of his own, plans to expand East. The paper already sells more than 2,000 weekly copies east of the Mississippi, mostly to New Yorkers who remember Beebe from his days as a café society columnist for the New York Herald Tribune...
...example, Chicago's Lake Shore Apartments--twin skyscrapers built on one-story concrete stilts appearing "rather effemoral" to Creese--are designed to blend harmoniously with the Lake Michigan background. On the other hand, the seemingly realistic Chicago Tribune building, constructed to house a novel illuminated tower, now appears archaic in the Loop...
...VERSION ARCHAIC...
Since then--and particularly during the course of this century, the English vocabulary has again effervesced, and much of the beautiful language of the King James Version is archaic, some of it confusingly so. Similarly, the continuing discovery of earlier and more authentic manuscripts (the so-called "Received Text" of the Authorized Version was little more than a compromise reading of the best available source of the period) has exposed a number of textual inaccuracies...
Fresh Start. In obvious need of rewriting, anticlimactic after Becket's second-act death and sometimes weighed down by clogged and archaic language, Curtmantle is nonetheless aflash with the best of Fry. His Eleanor is a brightly caustic Queen, and his Henry is a rough King who could cry out that Becket's mouth "was making words like a purse farting," or, with mightiness, denounce "you lords of the Church Arrogant, like an old god crazy with his thunderbolts...