Word: marr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language of its own. Lenin had made some remarks about the existence of separate cultures within the capitalist state, and Joseph Stalin declared that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. Marr died in 1934, but his work was carried on by disciples...
Marx Said So. By 1950 there were many among the new generation of Bolsheviks who thought that Russian was good enough for them. A learned controversy in Pravda last month aired views for & against the Marr theory. Last week Stalin personally ended the argument with an 8,000-word statement on language. He was no philologist himself, Stalin admitted modestly, but he was, he thought, an authority on "Marxism within philology...
...being threatened. Under a decree handed down by President Lázaro Cárdenas in 1936, licenses had been limited to 5,000 individually owned cabs. Mexico's Supreme Court threw the decree out last year. In moved a fleet of 150 smartly painted cabs called Marfil Marrón (Ivory and Maroon), whose bonded, uniformed drivers were outrageously courteous to passengers, even providing them with electric shavers and the morning papers. When the newcomers, in a deft stroke of public relations, took residents of the Old Ladies' Home for free rides around town, the oldtimers found...
...Mike! As news of the police action spread, the remaining Cardenas cabbies raced downtown, began to stone and overturn Marfil Marrón cabs. By threats and cajolery, they persuaded the larger, more conservative Cab Drivers Syndicate to join them in a strike. By nightfall there was not a cab to be hailed in all Mexico City...