Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even within Herr Schaffer's limits, there are other rules and proscriptions. No civil servant below the rank of minister or state secretary, for instance, will be allowed to have carpets, vases of flowers, window curtains that reach to the floor...
Bookcases will be allowed only to those who rank as ministerial councillors or above. Sitzecken, or sofas and armchairs, will be permitted only "for such civil servants as currently receive visitors." Ministers of Cabinet rank will be permitted to use their own discretion in furnishing their offices, but even they were warned by Herr Schaffer that the ensuing bills "will need my approval...
...outgoing" leader who gets too friendly with his subordinates may find himself no longer able to make clear-cut decisions. But an aloof leader may isolate himself too much from his key man (e.g., foreman, or top sergeant) and thus lose touch with his group. When this happens, the rank and file are apt to turn to someone else as an informal leader. Therefore, the most effective leaders according to Fiedler, are men who are properly matched to their subordinates. When possible, an overly friendly commander should be assigned to a taut unit with rigid barriers between lesser ranks. Overly...
High and Dry (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists). Laughter has always been known as healing, but in recent years the world's moviegoers have learned to call it-with an increasingly British accent-Baling. In the last five years, Executive Producer Michael Balcon has created at Baling Studios, a J. Arthur Rank affiliate just outside London, a comedy factory that puts out more and better humor than any place since Hollywood in the silent days. In such marvelously handwrought hilarities as Tight Little Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, and The Titfield Thunderbolt, the Baling people...
...story of Harry and Davy has been made into a surpassing movie, The Little Kidnappers (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists), directed by Philip Leacock and written by Novelist Neil Paterson (Man on the Tightrope), whose script is a fable as deep-going and sweet-running as any on the children's shelf. The innocence of the children. Jon Whiteley as Harry and Vincent Winter as Davy, pierces the heart like a spring morning, and Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson are fearfully true to life as the boys' Scottish Calvinist grandparents. The photography, by Eric Cross, fills the background...