Word: archaicism
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...write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came in the second act for which he discarded his spectacles, donned baggy blue trousers, black top boots, a silver-trimmed cape...
...onlooker hating violence, Yuan plays no vital part in the revolution that brought Chiang Kai-shek to Nanking. Mrs. Buck's faintly archaic Biblical rhythms, so well-adapted to the peasant and patriarchal life of an older China, falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the coastal cities and the amazement of a young Chinese in the U. S. Her style has been compared by her more enthusiastic followers to the prose of the King James Bible. Critic Stark Young has attempted to put the quietus to this claim by printing some of Pearl Buck and some...
Harvard Square will be treated to a delightfully archaic sight this afternoon, when at two o'clock precisely, especially privileged members of the Harvard Dramatic Club will climb aboard a chariot lent them by the Classical Club, and gallop off for the Repertory Theatre...
...large for pleading "freedom of the press" as a defense against an NRA newspaper code. It scolded its brothers for resisting Child Labor laws against newsboys and openly stated that it hoped to eliminate all newsboys from its own circulation system. It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket. It promised not to heckle President Roosevelt for one year following his inauguration, has since March 4, 1934 continued to support him by choice...
...Higher Critics are wrong in alleging that the Bible is based on oral tradition current in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries B.C. Sir Charles's discoveries show that alphabetical writings in archaic Hebrew, some paralleling Biblical passages, were set down in 1400 B.C., in the time of Moses...