Word: archaicism
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...WORST: Eminem's misogyny and gay baiting. Eminem is talented, but his attacks on women and gays poison his rap. Artists should have free speech, and rebellion in pop is a good thing. But attacking women and gays isn't rebellious, it's archaic. One fears that fans and mainstream critics may admire Eminem because he's giving voice to their prejudices...
Scholars of the Twelfth Amendment have never had it so good. With the elemental chaos in Florida showing no sign of abating, these lonely academics have been thrust onto center stage, asked repeatedly to justify the complicated (and, some argue, archaic) system by which America chooses its presidents. The conventional wisdom has turned against the Electoral College, with Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton leading the charge for its abolition. Yet the search for a perfect election, for a "magic bullet" that solves our political problems, is likely to be frustrated--and the American people should get used to the fact...
...older boys who hadn't been taught to control themselves and by grownups who thought I should wear a bra. I didn't feel any different from before I had breasts, but I was treated differently. Blaming a girl's body for the failings of our society is archaic and wrong. CARLEN ANTOINETTE REYNOLDS Houston...
...renaissance. The greatest musicians I know accept the whole history of music. Marcus Roberts, who I named before, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, these are artists who deal with all of the music. They're not being addressed properly, but they're here. The archaic thought that abstraction is the only way to be modern, I don't know who still believes in that. Also, the idea that one period of something defines it instead of the whole of that thing is also archaic. America prizes change and being reborn, but our country has a history and documents that...
...into a medieval state. Evidence of the school's sad decay is ubiquitous: Yale's Gothic spires mark centuries of cultural decline; its students venerate the relics of Handsome Dan, the bulldog mascot whose decaying corpse is still on display in Yale's Peabody Museum; its cults adopt the archaic nomenclature of Spizzwinks, Wiffenpoofs and the Skull and Bones. (W., leave the room...