Word: archaicisms
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...world's third highest peak, and technically a much tougher climb than Everest.) Now retired, Band still leads treks in the Himalayas. When I spoke to him last week, I asked him to describe his colleagues in the Everest party. His choice of adjectives was illuminating and a little archaic. Hunt, he said, was courageous, diligent, intelligent, hard-working, a good linguist, "good at chairing a meeting," a "very great leader." Hillary? Tough, determined, thin and lithe, "bags and bags of energy." And what did Band think now of the - to modern ears - hilariously measured tones with which Hunt described...
...imagined with fear and delight the two pioneers standing only 60 meters below the summit at the base of a 12-meter vertical rock face, later named the Hillary Step, desperately hoping it could be scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly altitude illnesses, little understood, caused brains to swell and lungs to fill with fluid. Because lightweight radios had yet to be invented, it wasn't until Hillary and Tenzing had descended...
...work in the practice of art. And ever since spring 2001, when the chair of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department was dismissed and Summers was named president, the University’s commitment to the arts has come under fire. Critics argue that Harvard’s archaic reluctance to recognize and incorporate the arts into its academic mission may discourage talented prospective students from choosing Harvard and threaten its prestige...
...happens to carry a rotary-phone handset around.” Rahimi’s real reason for inventing the phone was a technology conference for Third World countries that took place last December. He took home second place for his unique device. By attaching a huge archaic handset to his tiny Nokia cell phone, Rahimi explains, “I was able to illustrate the problem many third-world citizens have connecting with modern technology. The cell and handset was a sort of bridge between...
...first time in more than 500 nights. As spiritual leader and financier of the most shadowy and ubiquitous organization in modern Islam, one that is highly admired by the oppressed of the earth from North Africa to Southeast Asia, bin Laden has represented the biggest threat to scores of archaic Muslim regimes that, combined, govern one-fifth of the world's population and preside over a much higher share of its energy resources...