Word: archaicism
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AFRO-AM is a victim of The System--Harvard's archaic and serpentine tenure process...
...taunting fur-coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel, and fur is archaic." Two weeks ago, the city council in Aspen, Colo., voted to put on the ballot an initiative that would ban the sale of fur in the trendy resort town. Says Aspen Mayor Bill Stirling: "As a community, we don't want to earn our sales- tax dollars from cruelty to animals...
Prince Edward has a sort of archaic rural beauty, with sleek Black Angus cattle grazing, hay baled in cylinders in the fields and an enveloping sweetness of landscape and seasons. It is -- or was -- a peculiar charm of the county that virtually everyone knew everyone else, and spoke with outward courtesy. Most of the families, black and white, have roots that go back 200 years, their lives, for good and ill, entwined. The blacks lived in intricate dependency upon the whites, who owned the land and held the power. But the foundation of white paternalism was segregation: when segregation...
...romance I mean romance in the archaic sense, in that it is a wisdom tale," she said, describing Temple of My Familiar, her latest work. Dressed in a purple knit sweater and matching headband, Walker spoke of its themes of womanhood and spirituality...
...level jobs. In fact, such corporations as Corning Glass and Merck have found that the costly career-track disruptions of parenthood can be reduced when companies help their employees balance the demands of work and family life. Thus the emergence of a formal Mommy Track strikes many people as archaic, especially at a time when companies are offering working parents a helping hand in the form of flextime, parental leave, day care and other programs...