Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But nothing in Simone's background quite prepares the reader for the rush of intense intellectuality and social activism that marked her twenties. After graduation from the Lycee Henri IV in Paris, Weil entered France's prestigious Ecole Normale as one of the first women admitted to the institute, and...
What Zefferelli and Prokoviev did to Romeo and Juliet, Vincenzo Bellini did earlier. Bellini, an Italian composer of the early nineteenth century, found arias where Prokoviev later discovered pas de deux. The opera, I Capuletti e I Montecchi, according to Loeb p.r., is marked by "intriguing departures from the original...
The State Department broadsides broke a longstanding taboo against strong comment on the internal policies of other countries. They also marked the first effort by Washington to take the Eastern regimes to task for not living up to the Helsinki provisions. When he learned of the statement about Sakharov, Anatoli...
The editorial pages are where the differences between the two papers are most marked. In the hands of Philip Geyelin and Meg Greenfield, the Post has the best editorial page in the country. It achieves an urbanity of tone, reasoning conversationally with lawmakers and officials, and frequently surprises with unexpected...
Like many South American artists and writers, Neruda followed a course throughout his life that included diplomatic duty--first in Ceylon, Burma and other parts of then-very distant Asia, and then in Spain during the days of the Republic. It was in that latter time that he encountered the...