Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One evening he had a dream-the first to trouble his sleep in many years-of doors: big doors, little doors, children waiting in front of doors. He held the door for a lady with A and P shopping bags. He opened a door marked "opportunity" to a young black...
Sparkling individual offensive performances marked the Crimson victory. James Brown dumped in 32 points on 12 to 15-foot jump shots and easy drop-ins: Floyd Lowis controlled the offensive board; and Stan Mark and Jean Wilkinson, the Crimson guards, pierced the Engineer defense repeatedly on hard-driving lay-ups...
Even the group's most lingering look back at life on the land, King Harvest, is touched with a double vision. It is marked by an ironic interplay between the rich, yet somehow threatening sound of nature and the querulous, grass-hopperish whine of the farmer.
In the end, Owl died one day with no more warning than had marked his arrival. In the family's routine he left "a very small blank-precisely owl-shaped." Service's very small book is not precisely owl-shaped, but it serves most excellently to fill a...
But Brown, one understands, is not nearly in the Big Red's class, and although Harvard's performance last night showed marked improvement over these of three weeks ago, it will need quite a bit more to beat Cornell this weekend.