Word: archaicism
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Swift's daily column undoubtedly appeals to many who do not read it with the seriousness that its author intends. His style, shot through with admittedly made-up mythology, is mystical, flossy, archaic. ("Beside the watery mere where pussywillows are growing frowsy, the twilight concert of the hylas is in full swing... .") But Swift is above criticism. He wants to pass away with his hiking boots on, just as an 84-year-old disciple did recently. "That," he says ecstatically...
...poor and ignorant man judges his lot by his past. Thus did China's ragged ricksha pullers judge the Government's lofty pronouncement that their work was "archaic, inhuman and wasteful of manpower," and the Government's three-year plan to abolish all rickshas in favor of pedicabs, trolleys and buses...
...Government spoke of inhumanity, but most ricksha men had come out of the greater inhumanity of hungry villages and hopeless slums. The Government spoke of archaic labor, but last week the ricksha men showed how necessary their labor was to a nation that is not yet wholly modern. In Shanghai, they staged a spectacular two-day strike against exorbitant rentals charged by the ricksha owners. The metropolis of 3,000,000 hiked to shop and office, jammed itself inhumanely in over-jammed trolleys. The municipal government's social affairs bureau mediated a truce while coolies and hong owners negotiated...
...intelligent. Such intelligence is the measure of the good movie Devotion might have been. It measures also the general shallowness of feeling, thought and characterization, and the ornate, destructive little successes of the film: a nightmare, silhouettes of black costumes against dead grass, and glimpses of young authoresses in archaic underwear...
Seven months ago, Japanese radio was shackled and archaic. It was pushed around by militarists, staffed with incompetent kin and courtiers of the royal family, and as traditional as Bushido in its programs. But once unbound by the Allies, it soon paced the campaign for a democratic Japan. Last week, to help it stay on its own feet, the Broadcasting Corp. of Japan had a new, liberal president: an unobtrusive mathematician, Kinnosuke Ogura...