Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Read with great amusement your Oct. 22 article, "Skirmish on Munjoy Hill." With proper management, the city of Portland, Me. could attain the importance of a Boston or New York; with one of the finest natural arbors on the entire East Coast, it could rank high with the right people in office...
...Browning Version (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's own adaptation of his one-acter about a Mr. Chips-in-reverse, an unloved, dried-up academic tyrant on the way out of an English public school after 18 years. Like the play, the film daubs life liberally with greasepaint. But it is still a moving story, and lends British support to the Hollywood slogan that movies are better than ever-especially when adapted with care from successful plays or novels...
Except as a distant allegory, The Conformist leaves the larger part of Fascism unexplained. Yet, as a picture of one particular Fascist, it is a thoroughly convincing book. It is flawed somewhat by a languorous analytical style which prevents it from picking up dramatic speed, but even second-rank Moravia makes fine reading...
...Class of 1954 the Predicted Rank List gave a fairly good indication of what Group the student is likely to make. Almost 37 percent were predicted exactly, while 81.6 percent were no more than one Group away from that predicted...
Cellise Samuel Mayes was, as last week, the outstanding artist. In his solo playing as well as ensemble work, he again demonstrated that he is an interpretive artist of the first rank...