Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unhappy case of Professor John K. Fairbank of Harvard University presents a challenge to all Americans who rejoice in the claim that they live under a government of laws. Professor Fairbank, in charge of Modern Chinese Studies at Harvard, a scholar of the first rank in his field and a man of the highest repute among his professional colleagues, was granted leave of absence for a year's study in Japan on a Guggenheim Fellowship and Social Science Research Council travel grant. Having made all the necessary preparations for his trip, he was apprised in a terse note from...
...placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face, Sloan married twice, worked six hours a day until shortly before his death, once summed up his long career: "Though a living cannot be made at art, art makes living worthwhile...
...very people who did most to put it in power. The government's new critic: the powerful General Council of the Trades Union Congress, which presumes to speak for 8,000,000 workers. It had not really been speaking for them for a long time. While rank & file unionists complained bitterly against rising prices and pegged wages, the General Council stoutly supported the government's 3½-year-old wage restraint policy. Last week it could hold out against the clamor no longer. The General Council formally demanded that the government okay increases. In prospect: a clash between...
...hundred years ago, everyone took for granted that the Tories were a conservative party, the Whigs a liberal one. So when Tory Benjamin Disraeli pushed through Parliament the liberal Reform Bill of 1867 (doubling the electorate), both Whig and Tory rank & file were as stunned as if night had turned into day. Tory Leader Lord Derby had to dash about explaining the significance of this extraordinary stroke to his amazed followers. "Don't you see," he cried delightedly, "how we have dished the Whigs...
...cavernous Union Station behind a motorcycle escort to turn over the ornate presidential reception room for VIPs to travel-weary G.I.s. Said the President: "The people who are in fact 'very important people'-just about the most important people of all-[are] the men & women of every rank and in every branch of our armed services . . . They have not been getting the right sort of treatment in some of our towns and cities." Also on the program: Margaret Truman's good friend and sometime beau, Lawyer Marvin Braverman, now a member of the Travelers' Aid board...