Word: archaicism
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...intend to block the President so far as possible on public spending, to check him if he reverses himself on recovery and business appeasement (see p. 11). Because of this John Garner has become to arch New Dealers a symbol of sabotage. They consider him a prairie politician whose archaic notions, plus popular veneration for long public service, accidentally make him the leader of reaction against six years of enlightened reform...
Album of Early Choral Music (Trapp Family Choir; Victor: 10 sides). Salzburg's singing family (TIME, Dec. 19) warbles a program of quaint archaic vocal chamber music...
Although Chicago dentists enthusiastically applauded Dr. Messinger, dentists in Manhattan who soon got wind of the performance roundly denounced it. "Tooth replantation is an archaic, long-abandoned dangerous practice," said the Greater New York Bureau for Dental Information, official spokesman for Manhattan members of the American Dental Association. A replanted tooth is a foreign body, the Bureau warned. Even if sterilized, and even if it stays put, it may cause infection...
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis, and Johann Hermann Schein: Motet "Die Mit Tranen Säen" (Motet Singers, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 4 sides). In 1700, grand old man of European music was a Swedish composer and organist named Dietrich Buxtehude. His quaint, archaic Missa Brevis is as deft and complicated as a Renaissance tapestry. Composer Schein's motet, added for good measure, was written about half a century earlier...
Last week, in the title role of Ambroise Thomas' archaic Mignon, pretty, dark-haired Rise Stevens showed herself to be much more than a run-of-the-mill operatic debutante, sang with mature taste and acted her part with full-blown operatic temperament. For her, even the morosest critic prophesied an expansive future...