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No anachronism here, of course, as cockpit refers, not to a part of an airplane, but to an enclosed place for fighting cocks and, in a transferred sense, to a circular theater.
But without a steady drumbeat of public engagement--through marches, debates, C-SPAN, the works--the labor movement will continue to smell of anachronism.
Murdoch may be a modernist in his pursuit of a global techno-empire, but he's also an anachronism, a throwback to Hearst and Pulitzer.
The comedy of anachronism is Pynchon's favorite kind, and here, as elsewhere in his work, it isn't very funny.
The rhetoric may be modern, but the character is a cartoon anachronism, right down to his corny, drawn-out delivery, which clocks in at about five words per minute.