Word: archaicism
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...campus-wide campaign, candidates could not win on the basis of the petty council posts they have held in the past. In a series of mandatory debates and public appearances, candidates would have to articulate their vision for the council that transcends the archaic inner workings of the body...
...find it difficult, however, to understand the value of knowing how to manipulate Harvard University's confusing and archaic computer system. I see no sense in having to know the eight steps to print a program on a system that I will probably never want to use again. I have to remember only one button to press on my IBM-compatible word processor and on my roommate's MacIntosh to print something...
Congress, Brinkley contends, was at this time an archaic, old-fashioned body more concerned with preserving its own privileges and patronage system than with effectively overseeing the war. While the wartime agencies and bureaus were loaded with economists, professors and specialists in even the most arcane fields, congressional committees had staffs comprised mainly of hacks appointed for reasons of patronage. Thus, Congress was "reduced to waiting for ideas and suggestions from the president and, while bewailing their ineffectuality, rubber stamping their approval...
...presided over the creation of the world and its gods: the earth spirit Gaia, daughter of Chaos and mother of the Titans; Ouranos, god of the skies; their son Okeanos and his wife Tethys, parents of the sea and river gods. Unlike their Olympian descendants, these were too archaic to have acquired a fixed form in classical art. There was no thousand-year lineage of marble prototypes for their shape. They could be big and indistinct. And the conjunction of monumental size with muffled form entranced Tucker. The resulting pieces look ineloquent, truncated, more available -- at first -- to touch than...
...effort to convey complex ideas about literature, Calvino's most effective tools are mythology and visual imagery--what he calls icastic imagery, an archaic word in English, though common in Italian, from the Greek eikastikos, meaning "figurative...