Word: archaicism
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...fourth season of the Boston Pops, and perhaps that is why the tables are arranged for parties of five. Even 64 years ago it must have been foolish to go to the Pops without a girl, but then you needed a chair for the chaperone. I object to this archaic tradition, because on Monday, which was Harvard Night, a party of six in front of me spent the first part of the program modernizing the system. They were trying to get a chair which was strapped to an adjoining table into an appropriate relationship with their own. They never succeeded...
Amid the gossipy birthday crowds strolling last week across the imperial gardens at Tokyo, a frayed, rustic-looking little man stopped, doffed his hat and made a low bow toward the palace. In the middle of this gesture, once compulsory but now archaic, the little man suddenly became aware that his more modern-minded countrymen were staring at him. Deeply embarrassed, he checked himself in mid-bow, pretended that he was merely scratching his head, and put his hat back on. Then he shyly disappeared into the crowd...
Against a flyblown Gay-Nineties backdrop, Lil queens it over a cosily archaic underworld of cokies and floozies, shoplifters and white slavers. She loves passionately and profitably, conceals a heart of gold under a breastplate of diamonds, commits murder once, gets away with it often, and renews-at the end of Act I-her hospitable invitation to come up and see her some time...
...regrettable that a magazine like TIME . . . chooses to confine itself within the boundaries of archaic nationalism and philosophic materialism...
Handicapped by an archaic 1872 charter which made him, like all his predecessors, the Throttlebottom of the city council, he set up mayor's commissions on everything from human relations to smoke abatement. He was a great hand at patching labor troubles. After settling one row, Humphrey proudly explained: "What labor and management need is a catalytic agent. And brother, that's little Hubert...