Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If I did, perhaps it was because I am a Louisiana redneck, and I could understand an Egyptian redneck. Nasser was a hick. Though he was born in Alexandria, he was marked as a Saidi, a product of his father's village in upper Egypt, regarded as a vulgar...
A similar trend marked Rome long before its fall. Juvenal decried the ubiquity of foppish, feminine, perfumed males. Elagabalus appeared publicly in women's clothes. Caesar was likened to "every man's wife and every woman's husband"; Antony had a harem of men and women; and...
"I've lasted very well, don't you think?" asked Mystery Writer Agatha Christie last week on her 80th birthday as she received reporters at her Berkshire, England, home. "I must have stamina." Stamina indeed. The occasion also marked the publication in England of Agatha's 80th...
The two votes marked a turning point in Harvard history. Ending the era of the myth of the ivory tower university, the Faculty at last realized that Harvard is not separate from the rest of the country, but that national issues were a proper, and indeed necessary, area of concern...
Skyjacking has been a Front specialty since July 1968, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked an Israeli El Al airliner just outside Rome and forced it to fly to Algeria. There, instead of providing the usual Havana-style side trip that had marked most previous air hijackings, the guerrillas refused to release...