Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military hands and given to civilian scientists. at the present time, all weapons research is directed by officers of the three services. These men are neither stupid nor incompetent; they simply lack the scientific background to make decisions for themselves. The services actually object to giving high rank to their scientific personnel. It nearly took an act of Congress to promote naval engineering expert Hyman Rickover from captain to admiral last year. Rickover is a specialist, and the Navy, as well as the Army and Air Force, insists that its brass be trained in the line, not the laboratory...
After a newsman dug up the fact that Lieut. General George Washington died before the rank of general of the armies could be conferred on him. Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens declared that the Army no longer has the power to promote Washington, tossed the problem to Congress...
...with the average Harvard section of 15 or 20. The more important aspect, however, is the array of teaching talent made available for precepts. Unlike the Harvard system of using graduate students and instructors for virtually all of its sections, the precepts are taught largely by men of professorial rank. Each man giving a course must himself lead three or four precepts a week...
...Empire: Kafka grew up in Habsburg Prague; Alban Berg, who wrote the gloomy Wozzeck, was a Viennese; Bela Bartok, whose Bluebeard's Castle almost makes a sympathetic character out of Bluebeard, was a Hungarian; even Luigi Dallapiccola, whose opera, The Prisoner (TIME, May 29, 1950), gives him front rank in the new school, grew up in Austrian Istria...
...book of his poems drew rave notices, and he became the pet of London hostesses. He told the ladies that his favorite dish was pemmican, but at one party when his own verse sent him rolling on the floor in frenzy, he nibbled aristocratic ankles in order of rank-duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night and day and the antipodes do not affect...