Word: archaicism
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...other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed to the word dada, an archaic French term for a hobbyhorse. At the height of the movement, the Cabaret provided a venue for young nihilist artists to experiment, exchange ideas and make fun of conventional art. Over the years the Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair. The building was occupied by a succession of nightclubs, bars and squatters...
...team, however, is not going out without a fight. In addition to their positive outreach to black ministers, the Republicans have attempted all manner of voter suppression techniques in order to stifle black turnout. Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell (a black man himself) attempted to revive an archaic rule requiring that voter registration cards be printed only on thick, 80-pound paper. People for the American Way, part of a coalition of 60 civil rights organizations, have protested the “unduly burdensome and costly regulation that will…disenfranchise some voters at time of unprecedented...
...what, exactly, were we supposed to be watching? The archaic yet riveting parliamentary procedures governing opening the floor for debate? Was anyone actually going to oppose such a motion? Would that have even mattered, or would the presiding officer have just pretended not to hear...
Luraghi has published work mainly on Greek tryanny, focusing on the Archaic Age, as well as on Greek and Roman historiography...
...incident though it is, gets just four brief chapters in Genesis, and Maine has a terrific time romping around in the gaps between the verses, mouthing off in the somber silences between those Old Testament phrases. How does it feel to be 600 years old, as Noe (Maine uses archaic spellings for biblical names) was at the time of the flood? The Bible offhandedly mentions giants--what were those dudes like? Noe's three sons had wives, who presumably had names and personalities and feelings of their own. For Maine, the devilment is in those kinds of details...