Word: relic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present debate between conservative and liberal spokesmen is merely a "relic, a survival of what it used to be like when these distinctions really mattered," Lakoff told this week's session of the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs...
Wendy Hiller brings Miss Tina quiveringly to life, at first, touchingly timid, in the end, touchingly rash. Stunningly miscast as the Jamesian relic of a more gracious age. Franchise Rosay, with her Gallic accent and facial gestures, seems rooted in some irascible French family film. Maurice Evans elegantly elocutes lines that might better be spoken, but the talk is a smokescreen for a character that isn't there...
...revolution is both orderly and quick, its end "within sight of our own generation." Of his homeland. Luthuli said: "It is not necessary for me to speak at length about South Africa. It is a museum piece in our time, a hangover from the dark past of mankind, a relic of an age which everywhere else is dead or dying. Here the cult of race superiority and of white supremacy is worshiped like a god . . . Thus it is that the golden age of Africa's independence is also the dark age of South Africa's decline and retrogression...
Babes in Toyland (Disneyland). Victor Herbert's 1903 relic in a skillfully cut performance that goes off like a string of Roman candles. A handsome introduction to the man who made the Broadway musical work...
...first glance at the Humphrey "control room," as we feel forced to call his tremendous bank of electronic equipment, would look impressive even to the gas meter man. Prominently displayed in his system are three professional tape machines--the incomparable Crown 800, a Viking unit, and (a relic from a bygone era) one monaural Berlant. Bruce does a fair amount of live recording and remote duplicating; in fact you many have seen him making tapes of the Harvard-Radcliffe concerts...