As a result, many scholars mark the 1980s as the beginning of a significant slide in the quality of American journalism.
For the next several hundred years, scholars marked up the margins of their classical texts, law manuals, and notebooks with manicules drawn in a wide variety of styles.
Perhaps even, as the media scholar Mark Andrejevic would have it, "TV giving itself a moral center".
The system that Krishnamacharya created there drew on hatha yoga, as well as traditional Indian wrestling and gymnastics, British Army calisthenics and, according to the scholar Mark Singleton, the Danish educator Niels Bukh's "primitive gymnastics".
The scholar Mark Evan Bonds, in his new book "Absolute Music," describes the "growing conviction at the turn of the nineteenth century that music had the capacity to disclose the 'wonders' of the universe in ways that words could not, and that the greatest composers were in effect oracles, intermediaries between the divine and the human".
First appearing in 1960, it was revised in 1990 and then again in 1998, and is just now being republished by Norton in a vastly expanded edition, with the notes heavily revised, amended, and amplified by the Carroll scholar Mark Burstein.
Sun Ra operated proudly within a tradition that the scholar Mark Dery later dubbed 'Afrofuturism', a blend of science fiction and non-Western history that placed African culture in a new context.
According to the scholar Mark McLeod, the temple incorporated aspects of both Mahayana and Theravada traditions in its style of practice and architecture.
Literary scholar Mark Jones describes this effect as finding the poem is "over before it has begun", while according to writer Margaret Oliphant (1828 1897), Lucy "is dead before we so much as heard of her".
"There is nothing in the Maya or Aztec or ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to suggest that they prophesied a sudden or major change of any sort in 2012", said Mayanist scholar Mark Van Stone.
