Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was an anniversary that passed without fanfares or triumphalism. May 23 marked the 30th birthday of the Federal Republic of Germany as a democratic country. Six days earlier, the 518 members of the lower house of parliament had assembled inside Bonn's Bundeshaus ?a white, flat-topped, modern...
Although not yet on "Anwar" and "Menachem" terms, Begin and Sadat appear finally to have melted the frost that until now has characterized their personal relations. In El Arish, they joked with each other to such an extent that at first they seemed oblivious to the presence of U.S. Secretary...
October also marked the dedication of the newly-built John F. Kennedy School of Government. President Carter and Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), although invited, missed the ceremony.
Forty years ago, a few students weren't thinking about working. March marked the anniversary of the national goldfish swallowing fad, begun at Harvard by Lothrop Worthington '42. Worthington said eating goldfish is "just a question of mind over matter, a conditioning thing. Like eating oysters."
TEN YEARS AGO on April 10 at dawn, 400 state and local policemen marched up the steps of University Hall, clubs raised, and began the brutal eviction of hundreds of student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University...