Word: marrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabot, Marr, Spark Line...
...Eliot line managed to hold the defending champions fairly well, mostly on the fine play of guard Walt Cabot and tackle Ted Marr...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). Maureen Stapleton in Carrie Marr...
...Marr, who advocated one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. From long experience Vishniak sat back to see which way the Marxian doctrinal ax would fall. His vigilance was rewarded by an 8,000-word blockbuster in Pravda from Stalin himself, demolishing the "false" foundations of the Marr theory and setting everybody straight. It also made a story for TIME'S July 3 issue-and another example of the editors' continuing attempt to convey the ways of the Soviet to TIME'S readers...
Stalin demolished the "false" foundations of the Marr theory, discoursed at length on vocabulary, morphology, grammar, syntax, the historical and social origins of dialects, patois, and minority languages. The gist of Stalin's wordy, labyrinthian message was that "the Russian language has remained in the main the same as it was before the October upheaval . . . Language is created for the purpose of serving society as a whole . . . [Language] is all-national." Philologist Stalin savagely denounced Marr as a vulgarizer of Marxism, called him arrogant, alien, and demanded the liquidation of the "Marr clique" as saboteurs...