Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perry Duryea looks like a product of eastern Long Island, as much a part of the coastal view as the countless red-and-white lobster pots from which he has, over the years, extracted a fortune worth a couple or three million dollars. Craggy-faced, silver-haired, attractively beefy, Duryea...
You might think that Action Line reporters who spend their days sifting through the dust heap of human woe become as cynical and hard-bitten as their colleagues on, say, the police beat or the obit desk. Not at all. "I take every letter personally," sighs Manhattan's Fidler...
There will be no dividing bulkhead; the boundary will be movable and marked in much the same way that no-smoking areas are now defined. In the cheaper section, seats will usually all be filled, drink and food service will be last and the menu may be more limited. Whatever...
The speech marked the start of the final day at Harvard for the AHA members, who closed their three-day conference here Saturday afternoon with a rainy Harvard-Cornell football game and post-game cocktails.
In August, Chinese Communist Party leaders left China-watchers dumbfounded and Taiwanese leaders baffled when representatives from Taiwan and the PRC took part in an international meeting of physicists. The Tokyo meeting marked the first time in nearly 30 years that Peking had even tacitly accepted Taiwan's existence.