Word: cusps
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...that and anachronistic too. Proudly so. "We come from a weird generation," Hutchence explains. "We were born on the cusp between the '70s and '80s, like U2 and Simple Minds. The whole live thing was very prominent in those days, before people made or broke their careers through video. We're an anachronism. But a good one. We're enjoying...
...language as a spoken tongue. A native English speaker who was raised in New Bedford, Mass., and did not learn Yiddish until he studied Jewish history in college, Lansky clung to the language with a convert's passion -- in part, he says, because it represented a culture "on the cusp," not in the mainstream but on the periphery. The experiences and insights of Yiddish literature, Lansky felt, should not be lost. "As native speakers pass on," he says, "the books become the sole access to the last thousand years of Jewish history...