Word: relic
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...perhaps this is a relic of my vantage point; the image I wake to this year is one of branches framing a skimmed path to the Yard. I cannot dissociate these two in my memory: the imposition of branches with its necessary fragmentation of the image, and the street with its incessant parade of students moving between the tree's spaces...
...pedagogical relic. (A shadow of equipage...
...were to ask, in the usual sociological way, what relic an alien culture might use to intuit our pedagogy, my vote for the blackboard would be immediate. Here is an artifact whose interdisciplinary presence is rivaled only by the desk and the pencil. Greek classes, French classes, math classes and Core classes all revolve around its inimitable black surface. Professors and TFs--who do not speak the same language--will, in their turn, pick up a piece of chalk and begin to write...
...seek retaliatory trade sanctions against the U.S. - and they'd probably win, meaning American business would ultimately bear the cost of the Helms-Burton legislation. The Europeans, Canadians and Latin Americans, of course, have little sympathy for Washington's Cuba policy, which they regard as an archaic relic of the Cold War. So Clinton simply repeatedly postponed a confrontation by using his waiver. But this week's waiver expires in July, at which point President George W. Bush would have to try his hand at reconciling the Helms-Burton act with Washington's obligations under international free-trade agreements. Republican...
...church of jazz," writes Kahn, whose book is much the better of the pair, "Kind of Blue is one of the holy relics." If so, it's a relic with no saint in its provenance. Davis was an angry, hostile man whose distance from his audience grew in proportion to his increasing renown. But in the first half of his career, at least, he managed to sublimate his various rages and resentments via some of the most beautiful creations in American musical history...