Word: archaicism
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Note: Moloch is an archaic Semitic deity worshipped through the sacrifice of the young...
...Rock, 1970, for example, suggests the pointed blade of a Japanese tanto (short sword) impressed in the stone, as though the granite were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy, and mixing, in similar proportions, body, altar and stone...
...legend. The poets, painters and architects of the time-roughly the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-had been gloriously gifted; it stood to reason that the musicians had been too. Yet there was scant record of what their work sounded like. The scores that survived were in archaic, sometimes cryptic notation. The original instruments-for instance, the sackbut, a precursor of the trombone, and the shawm, a sort of oboe with a cold-often were found only among museum relics or glimpsed in old paintings; even when they were reconstructed, few performers knew how to tune or play them...
...American imperialism and international Zionism." There was not a shred of evidence for the accusation, and U.S. State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter promptly described it as an "outright, knowing lie." Indeed, the assailants were fundamentalist Muslims whose opposition to all Western influence is similar to Khomeini's archaic views. But though the U.S. has no quarrel with Islam, the report of U.S. complicity was widely believed in Islamic countries...
...conversations with conservative Justice William Clark because they did not trust him. The antagonism between Bird and Clark reached the point where the chief justice refused to speak to either him or his clerks. More important, the testimony indicated that the court's procedures were slow, cumbersome, even archaic. That view was echoed by Robert Thompson, a former California appeals court justice, who told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that the court was taking on too many cases for review...