Word: archaice
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Distinguished ladies and gentlemen met in a Manhattan theatre last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...details of the Tomb of Carlo Marsuppini and the Tomb as a whole, also several Portrait busts. Among the photographs of Classical sculpture are ones of the Erectheum made for the book on this temple soon to be published by the American School at Athens, and many examples of Archaic sculpture including the Charioteer at Delphi...
...National Museum at Atheus contains an archaic bas-relief taken from the walls of Themistocles showing what we would call the face-off of a game of field hockey. The opposing centers are about to put in play a ball the size of a baseball; two forwards on each team are prepared to receive it. The men carry sticks similar to those now in use, though they are shorter as to handle and end in a crock rather than in a flat arm. The whole scene greatly resembles the aspect of the modern game in every way. Of course...
...exercise of this archaic mode of expression, the drama continued until some 50 years ago, when there came the craze for realism. This, in its demand for photographic reproduction of life and its problems, which later evolved into the social drama of Ibsen and Galsworthy, ousted the spiritual element in the drama, killed imaginative dramatic writing, and was all of a piece with the growing materialistic tendency of the latter quarter of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century...
Criminal procedure, now framed about the archaic conception of the protection of individual rights, should aim rather at prompt determination of the accused person's guilt or innocence. Felons should not be permitted to escape by grace of a technical legal error...