Word: archaicisms
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...course, to the Task Force, these facts have little bearing since they are convinced that most history isn’t directly applicable to the present. They would never, it seems, hold the archaic belief that knowing the past prevents the repetition of mistakes. How quaint...
...there is another solution, which we have advocated in the past: hiring top-notch teachers for full-time teaching posts and renewing their contracts indefinitely based on their teaching performance.Currently, Harvard does not allow lecturers or teaching fellows to remain at Harvard for more than eight years. This archaic rule has a negative payoff: individuals who are hired for and excel at teaching students must leave regardless of their pedagogical ability. The typical argument for the eight year cap—that forcing lecturers to leave the University prevents them from getting stuck in a long-term teaching position?...
...putting on the market, for $2,090, a faucet that one can "caress" instead of turning its knobs. The African women carrying buckets of unclean water on their heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
...market, for €1,600, a faucet that one can "caress" instead of turning its knobs. The African women carrying buckets of unclean water on their heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
...array of sensations can come over a person fumbling with the water knobs in the shower: a sudden chill, perhaps, or a burning blast. French architect Jean Nouvel reacted on a higher plane. "There's something archaic about turning knobs to make water run," he says. "The controls should be something you caress rather than manipulate." Thus Nouvel, who designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Mus?e du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling out his bathroom fixtures, which he designed to eliminate...