Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flaying the "empty phrases and wheedling" of some German Communist leaders, Comrade Trotsky summoned the Red rank & file to sweep "Hitler dust" out of Germany by yet more furious efforts. Lest German Communists grow discouraged and be taken in by the pre tensions of Enemy Hitler who already talks as if he were sure to become Ger man Chancellor. Exile Trotsky warned: "In every war the enemy tries to exaggerate its strength to impress the enemy. Hitler is just as good a braggart as Napoleon was. but his pretensions will be come true only the minute that the proletariat takes...
Nineteen years ago Dancer Nijinsky, a sloe-eyed young man with supple joints and tremendous thighs, headed the Serge Diaghilev Russian Ballet in its triumphal tour of Paris, London, Berlin, New York. It was the first time that theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great...
...means, as it is in the Professional Schools, for weeding out the plodders. With the elimination of these men, whose theses are often more statistical records of insignificant events, professors would be freer for assisting abler students. Moreover restriction of membership in the Graduate School to first-rank scholars, men of definite intellectual vitality, would be the surest means of increasing the School's prestige and of attracting more students of the best type...
...Nestorians, it was a long, tedious struggle. In the very first session Nestorius was anathematized, deposed, excommunicated. But Emperor Theodosius declared the session invalid, since Nestorius had been deposed unheard. At length Emperor Theodosius gave in, and in the summer of 431 the council, satisfied that Nestorius was a rank heretic, went home. Heretic Nestorius died in misery in Egypt, "his tongue devoured by worms" (presumably cancer of the tongue); his adherents dwindled to a few thousand in Turkey and Persia. Outcome of Ephesus was an explicit statement of an old belief. Mary was, and is, the Mother...
...success of "Mexico" is symbolic of another important change, the development of a more international point of view among the rank and file. The significance of the Hoover-Laval and Hoover-Grandi conversations, which would not have occurred but for the depression, has sunk deeply into the American mind. The posibility that Canada may desert the gold standard, brings home as nothing else could the interdependence of nations...