Word: archaicism
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Paris recently had an opportunity to hear a new opera, Phaedre?book by D'Annunzio and music by the modernist composer, Pizetti. As a piece of dramatturgy the opera was voted dull. But the music was praised loudly as a lovely bit of classical and archaic beauty. The composer is above all things a scholar, who, working his way into new harmonic textures, gives himself, at the same time, to an ardent study of the music of antiquity. He is a great authority on the Greek modes, and uses them with vast skill and charm...
...plan complicated scenery, or to suggest scenic effects. The play should be limited to as few acts as the plot permits. Any female roles which are not adaptable to a male cast are to be avoided. No restrictions will be made on the source of the plot, except that archaic or over-fanciful settings are not us acceptable as those of a strictly modern nature...
...plan complicated scenery, or to suggest scenic effects. The play should be limited to as few acts as the plot permits. Any female roles which are not adaptable to a male cast are to be avoided. No restrictions will be made on the source of the plot, except that archaic or over-fanciful settings are not as acceptable as those of a strictly modern nature...
...safe to venture the assertion that few of the undergraduate body in the College would have thought an article by a member of the Semitic Department on student or world problems worth reading. At first blush it does seem a far cry from the reading of archaic manuscripts and teaching ancient Jewish philosophy to thinking and writing vigorously on vital human problems of the day. Yet those who knew Dr. Wolfson (now Assistant Professor) would have been extremely disappointed not to have ready just such a searching analysis of the "mis-named Jewish problem". He has been one of those...
Time, however, works changes on all things, including constitutions. Any notion that our troops would ever fight in European conflicts would scarcely have been foreseen a few years ago. Literal adhierence to any archaic stipulation may be legally correct, but it may be diplomatically wrong. Our prohibitions, where they are not to our advantage, should not appear to lessen an appreciation of France's gifts. The customary practice among our allies is to wear such medals, and we are expected to follow a similar policy. Let not Frenchmen think that we are indifferent to their highly prized rewards. Although...