Word: archaicism
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...back of me hand to C. H. Dodd [who heads the group working on a new translation of the Bible]. The "archaic phrases" are one of the features that make the Bible the jewel that it is. If the "moderns" want seduction, incest, etc., it's all there for them, only in poetic form. What modern novel cuts a prostitute in twelve pieces, one to be sent to each tribe of Israel...
...whole featherbedding issue is due to come to a head late this year. In December 1961, a 15-man presidential commission-equally divided among labor, management and "public" members, and headed by outgoing Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell-will make public a massive list of recommended changes in the archaic railway work rules. Clearly, the unionists thought that now was no time to be conciliatory...
...been a task involving many appallingly tricky decisions. But I hope we have produced a work which will be far more widely read by the younger generation who now regard the Bible, with its archaic phrases, as a stuffy and old-fashioned book...
...other hand, the convention could give back to the Legislature its rightful authority over taxation that the constitution now restricts very tightly. Like the counties and the Governor's Council, archaic limitations on taxation resemble, in the words of a commission several years ago, "a building with a Renaissance frame and a Elizabethan facade." They will require comprehensive, not patchwork reform, and probably only a constitutional Convention could erect such a structure suitable for the 20th century...
...keeps two-thirds of it tied up by its reserve requirements. Most economists feel that, where gold was once the only solid discipline in an untrustworthy world, the history of responsible monetary policy and the growth of international financial institutions have made the tying of all money to gold archaic. By dropping the reserve requirements, they argue, the U.S. can make its gold available to work where it counts, in the international payments field The U S would not go any farther off the gold standard than at present. It would only stop using its gold to cover the domestic...