Word: archaicism
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...Mann's own model, down to the very bumpiness and cantankerousness of the style, is the dramatic monologue as developed by Browning. Many of his gripes, grouchings and mph-mph mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings of light within the depths of an iceberg, is recorded more of the nature, substance, detail of that bitterly remote, contemptuous, inhumanly self-pleased, almost divine prescience which...
...averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell a Congressional committee that the movie ban was an archaic handicap to the manly sport. Republican Barbour is now training for a fast go with Democrat James Cromwell (an amateur boxer who once went a few exhibition rounds with Tommy Loughran) for his Senate seat...
...only cure for unpreparedness last week was money. President Roosevelt had asked for $1,182,000,000 in emergency cash and authorizations (plus previously pending estimates). The Senate in its responsive enthusiasm added $364,221,468, in the process grabbed off surprisingly little pork ($2,311,000 for the archaic, scattered string of forts which Congress forces the Army to maintain). Main items...
Gallerygoers saw a complete record of 2,000 years of Mexican art, from the artistic mud pies of the archaic Huaxtecs and Tarascans (500 B.C. to 500 A.D.) (see cut p. 58, top) to the latest paintings of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. From the Huaxtec mudwork (similar to that of today's Pueblo Indians) Mexico's artists graduated to the only finished stone-carving and temple-building of the Mayas and Toltecs. When, in 1521, the Aztec empire was destroyed by the Spanish Blitzkrieg, Mexico's artists turned from feathered serpents to waxworky saints, from...
...Carlo Menotti (Amelia Goes to the Ball). Each of these grownups, asked by King-Coit to write music for The Tempest, begged off, suggested Lukas Foss. He wrote the music in a month, based much of it (by request) on Sicilian folk tunes, turned in a remarkably workmanlike score. Archaic in mood, making deft use of a small orchestra, The Tempest reminded some listeners of Austria's late Gustav Mahler...