Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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>Voters seem to be swinging to the right. There has been a marked increase in the number who consider themselves "conservative," granted that individual definitions of what conservative means vary widely. In 1971, Pollster Yankelovich found that 25% of the public labeled themselves conservative, 55% middle of the road and...
Choosing his 197 favorites out of so many, Stryker, now 80, offers many of these. What stands out for the reader today are the portraits. There is noth ing candid about them. The subjects have prepared a face to meet the world and are all the more revealing as a...
The gym was like what was called an "all-purpose room" at my grade school, where the tables you ate lunch on were folded into the wall to clear the floor for basketball games, plays and PTA meetings. A ping pong table and a wooden desk sat on the raised...
Chicha is the national alcoholic beverage, made of fermented corn. It has a slightly bitter, unpleasant taste. Many women in the valley undertake the long process of drying, sprouting, crushing, and aging the corn kernels in order to supplement the often meager income provided by their household's farm. The...
The election campaign is likely to be one of the bitterest in postwar Britain. The Tories have made no secret of the fact that they are planning a scare campaign on a "Reds under the bed" ticket, blaming assorted Marxists, militants, Trotskyites and "unpatriotic" union leaders for the country'...