Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EXCLAMATION points and oozing over-statement fill the entire collection. "howling,/hooding the head against horror. Human!" Her lines abound with histrionics, "oh brain, too much marked cave!" Attempting to be unconventional, Spivack occasionally borrows from e.e. cummings--with disastrous results. Bordering on sentimentality, she often omits capital letters in...
The ruling ushered in a generation of anguished testing and advances of the idea of equality. Yet in Topeka, Kans., in 1954, the parents of Linda Brown, an eleven-year-old black girl, had mere ly sought the right for her to attend a segregated white school in her own...
The attack on the schoolhouse at Ma'alot did not come entirely as a surprise. Last week marked the 26th anniversary of Israel's founding, according to the modern calendar.* With Golda Meir's approval, National Police Chief Shaul Rosolio went on television to alert against possible Palestinian attacks marking...
In addition to the words and passages marked unintelligible, nearly 150 expletives, adjectives or personal characterizations have been deleted from the transcripts. Again, most occur when the President is talking. Many of the excisions were made by Buzhardt, a lay Southern Baptist minister from South Carolina who neither smokes, drinks...
Forget those ignorant New Jerseyans from Princeton and Rutgers who claim the first gridiron contest dates from 1869 when those two schools first clashed. Instead, the Harvard Athletic Department asserts that it was Harvard's 3-0 victory over McGill on May 14, 1874, that marked the Real beginning of...