Word: archaicism
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Conservatives fired back a few crisp volleys of their own. Wrote one: "It would be very interesting indeed to know how the Rev. J. B. Phillips would suggest that Shakespeare should be 'translated' for the poor moderns who cannot possibly understand his archaic English." Said another: "Our translations of the Bible and our Prayer Book are written in our own language at its best period. What is all the pother about...
...Israell Ministry of Justice visited Cambridge and spoke to several faculty members about the handicap imposed an adequate legal system. At present Israel's law is a mixture derived from Turkish, English Arabic, and Hebrew codes, and there are many serious gaps to be called in addition to many archaic laws which must be revised...
...move followed a resolution of December 5 of last year stating that the "Garfield Club, deploring the continual inactivity and ineffectiveness of a person or a group to rectify a social system which we consider archaic, intolerable, undemocratic, and not in accordance with the liberal tradition of Williams College,...votes that the Garfield Club will dissolve as a social unit...unless positive steps are taken to institute immediately a plan of total rushing which involves the admittance to a house for any man who so desires...
...Enquirer's 800 employees will move into the Times-Star's modern, 15-story tower and use the same composing room and presses. Nevertheless, Hulbert Taft promised that the venerable Enquirer will retain its identity and also the same management, staff and makeup, including its quaint, archaic headlines. Sample...
...Dilemma. Prophet Mann is lugubrious, but Novelist Mann is at his most urbane. He still writes with the literary craft of a master, and this time he happily avoids the philosophical asides that have cumbered earlier books. With its playfully archaic style and ironic tone, The Holy Sinner reads like a book written simply for the pleasure of telling a good story...