Word: archaicism
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Hallmark Hall of Fame: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is the kind of play that gives classics a bad name. The 350-year-old romantic comedy acts its age. Its plot conventions are no less archaic than its Elizabethan jargon, e.g., tillyvally, bawcock, clodpole. Such venerable comics as Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are no subtler or funnier than the names they bear. However fetchingly its poetry may glisten through the monkeyshines, it is a comedy of errors usually compounded in production. To handle this thorny flower at all on sponsored TV takes courage beyond the call...
First, there is, he asserted, a lack of organization in research work. He laid this difficulty to the "archaic distinctions" between the various branches of the services. Leach added that "there is an element of friction between the services which could be reduced...
Modigliani's Portrait of Kisling stands out as one of the most painterly works in this painter's exhibition, combining an almost archaic formal dignity with intensely human warmth...
...Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend to restore...
...harsh words do it quite the justice of The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, which brought Edward R. Murrow back to a new season of See It Now on CBS this week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland and The Netherlands and such private U.S. businesses as United Parcel...