Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cent, or $480,000 per year. The problem now lies in distributing these funds in a way which will meet the most pressing needs of professors. Under the recommended plan, with the exception of a scholarship plan for faculty children and a transitional retirement program, faculty members at each rank would receive approximately equal percentage increase in salary. The straight five percent salary increase that would result from the proposed assumption by the University of all pension payments, is, of course, equitable since both senior and junior faculty members alike need higher salaries. The transitional retirement plan and the scholarship...
...ever so unkind to his landlord, Soule nonetheless allowed that his top table priorities are based on his patrons' seniority. Among his best-seated customers: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Composer Cole Porter, Grandma Marlene Dietrich, Bernard Baruch, J. Edgar Hoover. Where did Landlord Cohn rank in this spectacular array? Said humble Tenant Soule: "He is always welcome. I smiled and joked with him. Why should an important Hollywood person think a little restaurateur wouldn't talk...
Patrick soon runs an erotic fever of his own over a nubile, neo-pagan teenager named Soula. Little more than fugitive kisses and caresses, the affair with Soula is tragically complicated by the fact that her brother Stavro, a boy with crypto-homosexual longings, feels he should rank first in Patrick's affections. By novel's end, Soula has died at her brother's hand. Resignedly estranged from each other, Patrick and Iris leave Corfu chewing the bitter rind of memory, all that is left of their brief repast of the juices and joys of the sensuous...
...hear her tell it, a woman teacher's ife is not always a happy one. Only one n ten of those who achieved the rank of ull professor is married; none has children. Though their younger colleagues are more domestic (onefourth of the associate professors and about one-third of the assistant professors are married), they seem to be even less content with their careers. Said one associate professor: "University teaching is still a man's game. All men . . . have a subconscious feeling that you are there on suffrance and ought to be thankful for anything...
...vocation in the hubbub of parish politics, bingo socials and Legion of Decency campaigns. Illinois-born and Catholic-reared. Author Powers brings an unsparing eye and a spare style to the subject of priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion to avoid mere anticlericalism. He shares the front rank of present-day U.S. short story writing with such writers as John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, and he surprisingly evokes the same sad dilemma that plagues Cheever's disenchanted Upper East Side Manhattanites and Salinger's poor little rich boys with fractured psyches. The Presence of Grace...