Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laurance Rockefeller inherited two special interests from his father: conservation and medical research. Last week marked the 25th anniversary of his gift to the U.S. Government of 33,562 acres at Jackson Hole, Wyo. The land became Grand Teton National Park. Thanks to another gift from Laurance, there is also...
The subpoena from Ehrlichman marked a sharp break in longtime cooperative defense strategy between Ehrlichman and Nixon's other former top aide, H.R. Haldeman. Both had previously denied any attempt to obstruct justice by impeding the Watergate investigation. The devastating June 23, 1972, transcripts of talks between Nixon and...
Smith, 38, is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and the father of four daughters. His large and eccentric melodrama is marked by lavish skill at doing what novelists always need to do-write scenes, weave narrative threads, hatch and construct characters, see and smell...
Somber Mood. Indeed, the solemnity of a presidential abdication masked the hostility that many felt on both sides. Newsmen studiously avoided gloating, and neither Nixon nor his aides renewed their old attacks on the press. Within two hours of the resignation speech, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler went to the podium...
In the work of Gustave Moreau . . . des Esseintes saw, realized at last, the strange and superhuman Salome he had dreamed of . . . the accursed Beauty, marked out from all others by the catalepsy which stiffened her flesh and hardened her muscles; the monstrous Beast, indifferent, unresponsive, unfeeling and, like Helen in...