Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the anger of its rank & file, N.E.A. officials also did their best to smooth things over. Though the grumbling continued in private, the N.E.A. unanimously adopted a resolution "deploring" the Legion's article, recalling the cordial cooperation of the two organizations, and asking for space to defend itself in the Legion magazine...
...Architect Walter Gropius' 15 years at Harvard, the Graduate School of Design has risen to No. 1 rank among U.S. architectural schools, in part at least because of Walter Gropius (TIME, Jan. 21). He was renowned as the founder of Germany's famed Bauhaus school, and youngsters for whom the words Gropius and Bauhaus meant crisp, challenging modernism followed him to Harvard. There, amid the pink & white Georgian of the Yard, he and his collaborators built a modern brick and glass graduate center. But for the most part, Gropius built little, was content to be a teacher...
...cramped wardroom of Admiral Horatio Nelson's 187-year-old flagship Victory last week, a court martial sat in judgment on another British naval hero whose duty was dogged by domestic complications. Lieut. Commander Alastair Campbell Gillespie Mars, 37, had neither the rank nor the romantic inclinations of his great predecessor, but during World War II he was one of Britain's ace submarine commanders. His part in sinking some 30,000 tons of Axis shipping earned him both the D.S.O. and the D.S.C...
Calmness & Assurance. Over the years, Iowa and its ten colleges have climbed to high rank in the Midwest. More important, the university, under Hancher, is one of the boldest crusaders against the vocationalism that plagues U.S. state universities. "Somewhere," Hancher tells his students, "the art of contemplation has been lost...An occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art . . . They possess an integrity, a calm and assurance, a wholeness of mind and body that is a kind of holiness. This wholeness, this holiness, I crave...
This theme is Gavin Maxwell's personal history. In 1945, aged 29, he was demobbed from the British army with the rank of major. Like many another veteran, he was dead set against living out the peace at a desk; unlike most vets, he had a few thousand pounds of capital. He spent some of it to make one dream come true: he bought a small island in the Hebrides, with salmon rights and a commercial fishery. It was while exploring the neighboring waters of his little kingdom that he first saw "a ripple with a dark center" breaking...