Word: archaice
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Three times in U.S. history a presidential candidate has won a plurality of the popular vote only to lose the election.* Reason: the archaic electoral-college system, an unhappy late-hour compromise device adopted when the Constitution was written and the subject of steady fire ever since. Last week, by a bipartisan majority of 64 to 27, the Senate approved a proposed constitutional amendment which would change all that. It would divide the electoral votes of each state according to the popular vote each candidate polled...
...Archaic Principle...
Professor W.P. Webb declares flatly that "the principle of the Republican Party itself was archaic and had been archaic for years" [TIME, Dec. 5]. I object, on the grounds that if the dignity and creative force of an individual is not to be preferred over the extended palm of the laissez-faire masses, if free enterprise is not to be preferred over nationalization of business (and professions), if a sound government economy is not to be preferred to a government pledged to spending and the increasement of the national debt, and if belief in the operation of natural economic laws...
...topflight Texas historian thought it would take a lot more than that. Writing in the current Southwest Review, Walter Prescott Webb, longtime professor of history at the University of Texas declared flatly that the great principle of the Republican Party itself was archaic and had been archaic for years...
...world is filled with archaic objects−mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter...