Word: archaicism
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...Rocker's is an archaic vision of America, inherently exclusionary and intolerant of "diversity." But it is a vision that was widely entertained a generation or two back. A village view, so to speak. Now we live in a different country. Is it a better country? In some ways, yes. In many ways, no. The mainstreaming of drugs, guns, pornography and raw cultural sewage is not much of an improvement. For all the genius of our technology, there is loose in the land an ambient moral stupidity born of a fatal old overemphasis on "feelings," as in the Rocker sanction...
...around about a particular class and people who've never spoken will echo each other's assessments, sometimes even using the same phrases. How is it that 500 people in a lecture class independently come to the conclusion that "the lectures are archaic, the head TF sounds like Marge Simpson, the midterm was hard and the professor is brilliant but incomprehensible...
Einstein could never accept that the universe was at its heart a cosmic crapshoot, so that today his papers on unified field theory seem hopelessly archaic. But the puzzle they tried to solve is utterly fundamental. In simply recognizing the problem, Einstein was so daringly far-sighted that only now has the rest of physics begun to catch up. A new generation of physicists has at last taken on the challenge of creating a complete theory--one capable of explaining, in Einstein's words, "every element of the physical reality." And judging from the progress they have made, the next...
...SPAD: The worst grade at Harvard was a B in Archaic Latin...
...fourth meal also avoids that archaic concept of everyone eating together at the same time. "If Harvard wants to be a diverse school, it has to have diverse meals," one junior declared...