Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With few exceptions, the long line of Presidents right up to Truman took their job with a remarkable purity of purpose, sublimating their other appetites and seeking gratification from their service to the nation. Men like Thomas Jefferson appreciated what money could do, but they designed the presidency to protect...
Westbrook felt that he was marked for execution "because I'm a threat in general to the S.L.A. I know quite a bit about them. I can analyze their moods and see through them." He admitted that he had detailed information about the S.L.A. and that he had talked...
Malraux feels the end of an era closing in. "Something started around 1450," he said. "The conquest of the world by Europe, followed by colonization. It is we who discovered the world. Nobody discovered us. This era lasted for 500 years. The year 1950 marked the end of the period...
Awaiting the Messiah. Steffens belonged to what Kaplan calls "American grass-roots radicalism" which is marked by hunger for drastic solutions and "an inclination to spend their time and spirit cussing out the government and the bank while awaiting the arrival of the messiah." Steffens was inflamed by the redemptive...
The city, then, was a must stop on the mid-19th century thinking man's tour. Charles Dickens, himself marked by his celebrated childhood stint in a blacking factory, put his observations of Manchester misery into Hard Times. Alexis de Tocqueville took a look and with a philosophical shrug...