Word: archaicisms
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...problems with recycling old shows is the recycling of old ideas and attitudes that come with them. Archaic and insulting stereotypes of women are especially disturbing in a show like Grease, with its built-in audience of screaming 12 year-old girls...
...environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...
...have heard good things about him and amoptimistic that he could modernize the way thatthe University deals with its employees," Kotowskisaid. "The way they do it now is so archaic...
...Baird episode earlier this year revealed a deep American squeamishness on the subject of servants. We don't even have names we feel comfortable with for people who do this kind of work. "Nanny"? O.K. for news headlines -- nice and short -- but too arch and archaic for daily use. "Child-care worker"? Too clinical. And then there's the cleaning lady. "Cleaning lady"? Please! "Maid"? "The help...
...teaching fellows, perhaps they would have more time to read papers if we did away with most traditional lectures. I don't quite understand why we persist with this archaic format where professors just read the same lecture notes they've read for years, changing them a little every now and then. Why is it so unthinkable to do away with the speech and fluff that goes into a fifty minute lecture...