Word: archaicism
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Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward the European Community, which last week issued an important rebuff to a Belgian plan to restructure the nation's archaic steel industry at a cost of $1.1 billion and 5,000 lost jobs. Two major trade unions in Wallonia promptly began a weeklong series of strikes and demonstrations...
...completely surprised by the level of Harvard athletics is Nigerian long jumper Gus Udo "Frankly, I was astonished," says Udo, who nearly chose a decidedly unathletic experience at the London School of Economics in stead of coming to Harvard. Facilities in Europe, where Udo went to secondary school, "are archaic compared to the ones here," he says adding that most European University have no full-time coaching staffs...
Anyway, why should one care about this schematic myth-wagging inside an art gallery when its limitations would be obvious anywhere else? The difference between archaic or tribal art and new art that feigns an archaic or tribal look is that the former was once dense with social meaning, whereas the latter, being deracinated and arbitrary, has little or none. But romanticizing the primitive, along with the instinctive and the natural, was central to expressionism in the '20s, and must be revived along with its look...
...anything in the world I hate, it's leeches-filthy little devils!" Humphrey Bogart growled in The African Queen. He had just climbed out of a river, covered with the little suckers. Doctors tend to be less squeamish. But even for them leeches have long been associated with archaic medical practices, like bloodletting to cure everything from gout to mental illness. Lately, however, the unlovable little creatures have been having a minor revival. At New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center doctors are using them effectively to help save reattached fingers...
...narrator, Brinnin exposes trivial in themselves, yet typical either of the emerging post-war, trans-Atlantic scene or of an insular, archaic Europe. He tracks his subjects by correspondencv and word of mouth, but stays unobtrusive. Touring America with the French photographer Cartier-Bresson, before the latter is discovered; meeting Eliot in the last years of the poet's life; paying court to Elizabeth Bowen and the Sitwells at a time when their eccentricities far exceeded their faded talents--he watches them with clinical detachment, in the throes of past and irretrievable success or in the pangs preceding recognition...