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Unlike them, this thoroughly admirable, thoroughly ordinary Queen has no apparent need to be "a modern person in an ancient institution." Does the Age of Me want an archaic model of unquestioning dutifulness and near total self-abnegation? It has one in the woman now on the throne, and Lacey may be correct when, in a last desperate attempt to dramatize his subject, he looks ahead another 25 years and prophesies, "Elizabeth II is made to be an inspiring old Queen." Melvin Maddocks
...essence, conventional religious decoration -like the spectacular head of a horned dragon (see color page), its jaws rippling like the blade of a Malay kris, which was carried on a lance to repel evil spirits during religious processions in Nara, near Kyoto. Other sculptures are of an intense and archaic severity, like the votive dolls found in 3rd century tombs in what had been the Chinese kingdom of Ch'u. Still other pieces, such as the 13th century Chinese figure of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kuan-Yin, have extraordinary, almost liquid grace and animation that seem to contradict...
...amused to read your front-page story (Crimson 11/29/76) about HSA's refrigerators. When I first began working for HSA in the fall of 1972, they had the same problem: the records were a shambles, the filing system was archaic, and nobody knew how many refrigerators there were or where they were. In the summer of '73, as acting summer manager of the refrigerator agency, I personally conducted a room-to-room search ofall the Houses (much to the annoyance of several superintendents and resident tutors), and discovered at least 50 HSA refrigerators listed in the office as lost, stolen...
Steinbeck only partially succeeded in bringing Arthur to the audience he claims he wrote for: "those of today impatient with the difficulties of Malory's spelling and use of archaic words." Throughout The Acts Steinbeck searches for a voice in which to recount the stories; he finds several, none of which are adequate in themselves, no two of which mesh harmoniously on the page. The result is a composite and uneven piece of work, by turns news analysis, history, psychological explanation, novel, poetry and myth. Malory managed to weave these threads together, but Steinbeck hasn...
...attained an above average standard of living. The barriers to equality which did indeed exist in the past for this group have largely vanished. That the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare fails to recognize this change in circumstances is little reason for Harvard to extend the subscription to archaic definitions for the mere sake of bureaucratic consistency. And to insist on special considerations for a group solely because it is a distinguishable minority intimates a new brand of prejudice...