Word: relics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western eyes, however, the Shari'a all too often is denigrated as a relic of the Dark Ages. Some of its provisions do seem awesomely harsh: habitual thieves are punished by having a hand cut off; adulterers are either scourged or stoned to death; falsely accusing a woman of adultery calls for 80 lashes-the same penalty imposed on a Muslim caught drinking alcohol. The equivalence of the two punishments exemplifies the time-honored logic of the Shari'a. The Koran forbade the drinking of wine, but did not specify a punishment; 80 lashes, however, was decreed...
Some traditionalists are distressed by all the talk of abandoning professional courtesy. After Wolfson and Bass denounced the no-fee practice as a relic in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care...
...families under water. The hope of finding Indian graves and getting the whole area protected from APCO by having it registered as a National Historic Place is just one of several desperate ways in which the people of Brumley Gap are trying to fend off inundation. The Indian relic idea is not entirely farfetched either. Store Owner Holmes recently found a Paleo-Indian double-fluted pentagonal flint point dating from 9000 B.C. It was authenticated by Randy Turner, regional archaeologist for south Virginia. Piles of arrowheads and doodads, picked up by residents over the years, still await serious examination...
...central banks, mankind's most treasured possession is supposed to have no more relevance than the Mongolian tughrik. So much for the official view of gold's value. Out there in the real world, the metal that Economist John Maynard Keynes once Wrote off as a "barbarous relic" has never shone more brightly...
...amazed at how dated this film looks--all the moreso because it wasmade by a bunch of amateur filmmakers who, for all their good-heartedness, simply didn't know where to put the camera. Ah, well-dreams die. It's interesting to see it as a kind of relic, but that's about it. You'll suddenly feel very...