Word: archaicisms
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...wrong, Saddam had one thing right -- that the Middle East was due for some major refurbishing. Religious hatred, excessive militarization, economic inequities and entrenched feudalism combine to make it a nasty neighborhood. The region has long been -- and remains -- violence-prone, politically archaic, oppressive. The jolt of the gulf war, however, may change the physics for a moment. "Maybe the shock," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "will enable people to think afresh, more constructively." Just as the allies seized the moment to finish off Saddam's army, so too should they seize the opportunity to make lasting changes...
...answer became clear in an article in last Friday's Crimson. Ad Board members Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz demonstrated an archaic blame-the-victim attitude. It is an attitude that can only discourage women from filing acquaintance rape complaints...
Tanner actions are fueled by the "Big Bad Wolf" principle of justice: the way to attack evil is to huff and puff and try to forcefully blow your opposition down. In a democratic society, such archaic theology only encourages resistance. To wage a successful campaign against pornography, Tanner must restructure his game plan...
Many impoverished, debt-ridden Third World countries are only just beginning to make their way along the only path forward -- the free market, painful and politically explosive though that is. Again, why should the U.S. care? Even though Marxist revolutionaries and guerrillas still carry on their archaic battles in many places, the danger of such countries' "going communist" is sharply diminished. But the developed world needs Third World countries as markets. Also, economic turmoil would put heavy pressures on the U.S. and other Western nations, not least through growing streams of emigrants...
...film with a suitable sense of whimsy; he uses silent film placards to establish the time and place of scenes. "December 25," one reads, "Traditional Christmas celebrated." The stilted editing of the scenes is also reminiscent of a time before talkies. These techniques only heighten the charming and archaic air of the film...