Word: archaicism
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Just hearing things, of course-like listening for waves in a sea shell. It did not occur to the air-traffic controllers to deliver that sort of archaic soliloquy, haunted by scruples. Most of them judged, briskly enough, that their desire for a 32-hour week and a minimum of $30,462 per year superseded the oath to which they once put their signatures...
Said Londoner Leslie Scott as he queued up outside the embassy: "It's an archaic idea and a lot of rubbish...
...belong to an outmoded 1960s-style of economic tinkering that has failed wherever it has been tried. Mitterrand seems to be marching to a distant and offbeat drummer and in the wrong direction. "This [nationalization] project," writes Historian Raymond Aron, "bears witness to the Socialist Party's archaic ideas." Says a prominent French banker: "The French don't do anything like other people. At the moment when all the great countries of the world turn away from socialism, the French at last sign a seven-year lease with a Socialist...
...King James Bible (New Testament only, 1979, Thomas Nelson, $7.95). This version stays close to King James phrasing and drops archaic words. Sales figures are secret, but over 500,000 are in print. To help in promotion, Nelson, the biggest Bible publisher in the U.S. ($40 million in annual sales), signed up conservative stalwarts, including Jerry Falwell, as editors. There will be considerable commercial fanfare when the full Bible comes out next year. But like the old King, the New King is hobbled by its dependence on what even conservative experts agree are outdated manuscript sources...
Today, Americans are confronted with so much that relying on music might be futile. Unemployment, inflation, draft registration, the decline of democracy, the power of the archaic Moral Majority, reincited racial and ethnic tensions, and terrorism combine to leave the average individual reeling. Recently, rock music has fragmented, reflecting the various attempts to escape: Middle of the road music, power pop, reggae/ska, new wave, disco and experimental music have divided record buyers as sharply as society has split. There is no longer a single "trend" in pop music. New albums from new groups proliferate, making demands on consumers, who need...