Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently made on Broadway, is a highly ambitious undertaking for an amateur dramatic group, no matter how high its calibre. Last night's performance in Sanders, however, vindicated beyond a doubt the resourcefulness, imagination, and skill of the HDC. The present production is theatrical achievement of the first rank...
...those who do, the book will perhaps rank with the best of Lewis. An acute and complex mind analyzes an early family history, a despicable educational system, a precocious not to say avaricious literary experience, and the spiritual roots of England in the twenties, with wit, insight, and dignity...
Because Danzig doesn't know swimming, or knew only what Loftus fed him, he wrote with a sneer, as if Harvard had been upset. He panned Pete Macky, Dave Hawkins, and Chouteau Dyer, barely recognized Jim Jorgensen's wide-margin records which prove his Eastern leadership and rank him among the top four in the country, and left out Gus Johnson completely. He may have been limited in space, but his greater limitation in knowledge proved more severe as he harshly and unfairly stated the Crimson...
...Ladykillers (Rank; Continental) is another Alec Guinness romp, in some ways even funnier than his 1951 Lavender Hill Mob. It is also a refreshing parody on the current rash of U.S. films, e.g., The Desperate Hours, The Night Holds Terror, in which humble citizens are terrorized by hoodlums...
...himself a Marine Corps noncom.* wounded three times, who won a D.S.C., Navy Cross and Croix de Guerre, and had every right to the bitter pity with which he wrote his novel. Among its 113 characters, every military type is represented-the good soldier, the coward, the goldbrick, the rank-happy shavetail, the lucky and the wound-prone. Each is caught in one lurid moment of his life, as if March had composed by the light of a Very pistol...