Word: archaicisms
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...Harvard’s instruction can also be drastically improved by expanding the hiring of full-time, non-tenure track teachers. Harvard has needless and counterproductive restrictions on how long one can teach at Harvard if one is not on the ladder to become a tenured professor. These archaic policies should be rescinded so that Harvard can attract the best teachers in addition to the best researchers...
...received the added perk of $200,000 prize money. Too bad he doesn’t actually get to spend it. But for the popular professor of Literature and Arts C-14, “Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization,” whose proclaimed interests are archaic Greek literature and oral poetics, the award and recognition in Greece were enough. Plus, he got to be on TV with the President. “Afterward, in the taxi I got into, the guy said, ‘Mr. President...
...popularity. French political parties remain clannish, ideological nests dominated by their male leaders. "All the polls show French society to be very open to the idea of a woman President," says Franoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled by men who can't stand the idea. The fact that Sgolne is no longer acting as a 'comrade' but as a rival is completely astonishing for them--and completely insufferable...
...people under 50 or so to pick up a newspaper. Damp or encased in plastic bags, or both, and planted in the bushes outside where it's cold, full of news that is cold too because it has been sitting around for hours, the home-delivered newspaper is an archaic object. Who needs it? You can sit down at your laptop and enjoy that same newspaper or any other newspaper in the world. Or you can skip the newspapers and go to some site that makes the news more entertaining or politically simpatico. And where do these wannabes get most...
...political parties remain clannish clusters of ideological currents owing fealty to male leaders. "All the polls show French society to be very open to the idea of a woman President," says Françoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist Deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled by men who can't stand the idea. The fact that Ségolène is no longer acting as a 'comrade' but as a rival is completely astonishing for them, and completely insufferable." There's a history to this. French women weren't granted the right...