Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet capital. Since he has become Premier, his biography has been edited to paint a picture of Bulganin at the barricades. He was never at the barricades but he-and Moscow's embattled citizenry-did the necessary job. As a reward, Bulganin got a general's rank in the Red army and rapid advancement to the post of political commissar. While Khrushchev, in the days of German retreat from Russia, was liquidating the rebellious peasants who had sided with the Germans in the Ukraine, Bulganin was doing the same job in Belorussia...
...Washington, the Defense Department announced that, having completed two correspondence courses in 1953 and successfully made his point quota, Vice President Richard M. Nixon had been promoted to the rank of commander in the Naval Reserve...
Last week Prades was in its annual bloom, and admirers followed the proud, stubby figure of the 78-year-old Catalan exile through the town and crowded his little house. Said one peeved old Pradesan: "If Casals scratches, they have to scratch the same place." But the top-rank musicians who came to Prades were hardly less worshipful. "What does Prades mean to a musician?" said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin to a reporter who caught him strolling through town in shorts, with a bunch of daisies in his hand. "It means the chance to play with Casals. Why does [Pianist] Eugene...
...take off for Manhattan and the majors. To prove that they can hold their own even in international competition, West Coast stay-at-homes this year decided on an all-out effort. Occasion: the third São Paulo Bienal, which Brazilian Millionaire Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho has promoted to rank with Venice's Biennale and the Carnegie International as a worldwide roundup of modern...
...Literary men stuff their fingers in their ears when Graves starts harping on his goddess. But nearly all would agree that the world would be demonstrably poorer in poetry if Robert Graves had lost faith in his goddess. Without her as Muse, he would never have written poems which rank with the greatest of the century...