Word: archaicism
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Part of Operation Rescue's failure comes from a misunderstanding of the area's political personality. "The assumption that Buffalo is an old-line, blue-collar sheet-metal town is absolutely archaic," says Gerald Goldhaber, who runs his own polling firm. "These days you tend to get a type of person who would not be receptive to Operation Rescue's message." For one thing, Buffalo is home to the largest school in New York State's massive university system. At the same time, two streams of financial fortune, one from an overheated economy in nearby Toronto and the other from...
Unable to engage our ideas in a serious, critical discussion, they are reduced to calling us names. They float the archaic image of hysterical women in an effort to delegitimize our fight to stop the violence and to reclaim our lives...
...spiritual heritage of western civilization is inscribed within the boundaries of the garden and the city. Eden and the New Jerusalem constitute visions of Paradise that are archetypes for the setting of everyday life from archaic Greece to twentieth-century America. In that each culture possesses its own "construction" of paradise, an examination of these (culture and construction) in parallel is the most rewarding premise for an exploration of human interaction with the visual environment...
...temples of archaic Greece, however, engage nature rather than imitate it, and Scully traces this relationship through the successive periods that he discusses. He identifies a kind of engagement in which buildings and gardens articulate cultural and social ideas...
...Drum, a dazzling display of rhythmic virtuosity performed by the Grateful Dead drummer and a super group of percussionists from Nigeria, Brazil and India. Planet Drum, which has been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery of drums, synthesizers, Chinese cymbals, rattles and even Mexican donkey jaws...