Word: archaicisms
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...post-cold war intelligence community, which I would characterize as juridical complacency. In other words, a mentality that forced intelligence agents to ask how well an action or appointment will stand up in a committee, or how it will look on paper. That?s opposed to the more archaic mindset, which was, who are the bad guys and how do we find them...
...find craftsmen like Constantine Petropoulos, 88, repairing some of the world's oldest gramophones. Walk into the workshop of Dimitris Kokkinelis, one of the last chalcographers in Greece, and watch him mold medals, some of which may be destined for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Stroll into an archaic atelier and observe the casting of copper cauldrons, used to brew ouzo, the potent, anise-flavored national drink. Or trek to the fringes of Psirri, a few steps beyond the final show of its spanking new hot spots, and discover the 200-year-old bakery of Venetis. The site, dusty and derelict...
Furthermore, although all proctors have some Harvard connection, many are not graduates of the College and are unfamiliar with its classes, concentrations, professors and archaic regulations. As a result, proctors’ academic advising has tended to be hit-or-miss; some first-years get lucky, others don’t. An R.A. system would relieve the advising pressure on proctors by giving much of the general college advising over to undergraduate R.A.’s. In this way, the line between advising and discipline would be drawn more firmly, and first-years would be provided with more comprehensive...
Last year, in an essay titled "Are You Happy Yet?" Delbanco noted that "phrases like 'job satisfaction' and 'personal growth'...have become part of the language, while terms like commonweal, and even citizenship--in which there lingers a residual sense of public good and private obligation--sound archaic." Serious outward pursuits such as citizenship first require a hard look within, and we're not much for what Delbanco calls "strenuous self-reflection" these days. He notes that even Billy Graham wrote a 750-page autobiography in which he says almost nothing about his inner journey to God. "Inwardness," Delbanco writes...
...every issue raised, there's a government trying to duck it. India's Dalits, for example, who languish on the bottom rung of that country's archaic caste system, have come to Durban to demand redress. No, the Indian government counters, caste can't even be discussed at the conference - because caste is a socially, rather than racially, defined system of exclusion...