Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter is not, as he admits, perfect. He can be a cold, inscrutable person. Superficially this seems a marked contrast to "nice guy" Jerry Ford. But the president's supposed personal decency like Carter's personal reserve, does not intrude on his political decisions. For evidence one need only...
Harris, who agrees with Gallup that the winner may well be determined by the size of the voter turnout, notes that polls have been marked less by zigzagging than by a persistent Carter decline. But the situation is so fluid that he plans to continue polling through Oct. 31 or...
Two days after his surprise departure from No. 10 Downing Street last April, Harold Wilson started writing a longhand manuscript on the British prime ministry. This week his thin (207 pages) but thoughtful volume, entitled The Governance of Britain, will be published in London; it is scheduled for publication in...
No Waves. Then Carter emerged victorious from the Democratic primary wars, talking of using taxes to redistribute the nation's wealth, creating standby wage-price controls, launching expensive new social programs and generally impressing Wall Street as being antibusiness. Though far from satisfied with Ford, investors prefer him to...
An unsophisticated youth meets a glamorous, mysterious stranger, and Learns Something About Life. It is an endlessly employed formula that has generated such high and low art as The Great Gatsby and Auntie Mame. This first novel, The End of the Party, by Marvin Barrett, is yet another variation on...