Word: relics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if machine politics is mostly a relic of the past, the Democratic National Convention last week managed to resemble something well oiled and humming. When the delegates arrived in New York City, the primaries had already made Bill Clinton the party's nominee and Clinton had already made Al Gore his running mate. Jubilant at the thought that this, at last, might be a winning team, the Democrats in Madison Square Garden cheered like paid extras...
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is not even 33 years old, but it seems a relic of some distant age, when vast, impractical artistic hubris could persuade and triumph. Wright was a fabulous caricature of the genius artiste, difficult and grand, and so the Guggenheim was a caricature of 20th century genius architecture -- bizarre, ahistorical, antiurban. These days, there are still plenty of arrogant, solipsistic architects around, but self-confidence -- and talent -- on the scale of Wright's no longer exists...
...spacious room that overlooks Weld Hall to one side and Tercentenary Theater to the other, where bound leather books, line the shelves, the clock is another relic from the past, symbolic of the University's-- and the library's--age and history...
...College Library--which contains 75 percent of the University's library holdings--was then in some ways a relic of the past. Of the world's five major research libraries--Harvard, he British Library, France's Bibliotheque Nationale, the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library--De Gennaro notes that Harvard, with its open stacks, is the most accessible to scholars...
PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS. Once disdained as a relic of the New Deal, the idea of hiring the poor, at least temporarily, to plant trees or patch potholes is gaining among conservatives. Grudgingly aligning themselves with many liberals on this issue, they have concluded that there simply are not enough private jobs available during times of slow economic growth, and that the benefits to the poor, in work experience and dignity, would outweigh the costs...