Word: quainted
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...nostalgia for the simpler life, for the less visible and less jarring pluralism of colonial times. But they could contribute to the process by which, after two centuries, Americans could again seek to be "a reformed and happy people." For the moment, though modern Americans may use less quaint terms, they are so keenly aware of their "vice, prophaneness, extortion" that they tend to defer their dreams and deny their promise...
Most advertising campaigns are designed to put a company's best foot forward in as clear and precise a manner as possible. In a quaint switch on that policy, these days the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. is offering a blend of self-abasement and mystification. Last week, A. & P. introduced the public to two men whose white aprons proclaim them to be Price and Pride. Price-hair parted down the middle, wire-rimmed glasses, collar pin-looks like a study in fiscal conservatism; Pride, bow-tied and portly, looks expansive. In print and on TV they humbly admit...
...Hara's writing will never win the laurels that he desired. He was over shadowed by greater talents, and he was preoccupied with surfaces in an age that plumbed the depths. His habit of using brand names (Franklin cars, Brooks Brothers shirts) to indicate character al ready seems quaint, done in by the likes of Ian Fleming. Despite his huffing ef forts, Bruccoli does not prove that O'Hara was underrated as a writer. But he offers telling evidence that O'Hara was underrated...
...remote, how quaint the well-behaved Irish rebellion of Charles Stewart Parnell seems today, with its motto, "Home Rule," and its hope of working out a decent compromise through the parliamentary system. Yet how much more remote, how much more quaint must appear the Great Love that brought down Parnell and his cause-the ten-year affair he conducted with Katharine O'Shea, another Irishman's wife...
...cultural life-good universities, symphonics, things like that-and politics is more of a spectator sport than a process of responsible democracy. The New Orieans City Council, for instance, has delayed its elections for two years now because it refuses to comply with federal law and change its quaint and cunning division of the city, which keeps a strong white majority in four of five councilmanic districts...