Word: rank
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While the supporting players are all competent, with Jim Caudle especially shining as Dr. Rank, it is Julie Glucksman's Nora and Brad Dalton's Torvald who make the play work. Dalton effectively portrays Torvald's flawed character, almost a caricature of intolerance and insensitivity. Showing no understanding of human imperfection or feelings, he constructs a dream world of perfection around his doll-wife Nora and cannot understand her violating it, even to save his life. In lesser hands the role could come off as a mere foil for Nora to rebel against. It is to Dalton's credit that...
...authors did not rank their 100 best companies, but they did choose a Top Ten. In alphabetical order, they are Bell Laboratories, Trammell Crow, Delta Air Lines, Goldman Sachs, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Northwestern Mutual Life, Pitney Bowes and Time...
...have some 1,400 warships at their disposal for the defense of Western Europe. While emphasizing the essentially defensive nature of last week's exercises, a top British naval expert observes: "These maneuvers underline the arrival of the Soviet fleet as a blue-water navy of the first rank. Of that, we in the West should take full notice." -By William E. Smith. Reported by Ross H. Munro and Bruce Van Voorst/Washington...
...college basketball teams are certain shades of gray, Georgetown at least seems as light as its pewter uniform. An academic coordinator, Mary Fenlon, holds the rank of assistant coach and sits on the bench looking like a cross schoolmarm. Though 7-ft. Center Patrick Ewing regularly says "we was" and "they was," he must be learning something. Senior Guard Fred Brown is asked if the championship makes him feel complete, and he replies thoughtfully, "No, I still have to get my degree." Without irony, Brown says he envisions a career in the FBI, the CIA or the Secret Service...
February 4, 1969--Amid growing student protest on campus, and with the memory of the 1968 Columbia University riots still fresh in their minds, the Faculty votes to remove academic credit from Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) courses and faculty rank from ROTC instructors. They also agree to set up a standing committee on Afro-American Studies...