Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russell Bowie '04, now a dean at the Union Theological Seminary, remarked, "He was handsome and light-hearted and apparently easy-going, not of particularly high rank in college class, quick witted and capable as a CRIMSON editor, but not extraordinary...
...years ago, while setting up U.S. engagements for Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's version of Oliver Twist, British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank ran into a clamor of protest. Jewish groups protested Dickens' "villainous and repulsive" Fagin, as played in the movie by Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in exaggerated make-up modeled on the famed Cruikshank drawings. Was the movie Fagin a public demonstration of antiSemitism? Rank bowed to the outcry, postponed the U.S. opening "indefinitely" (TIME...
...forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best of The Yellow Book painters and draftsmen (Beardsley, Sickert, Beerbohm, Sargent, Steer, Cotman, Guys...
...tutors to handle these seminars will be drawn from faculty members from the rank of full professor down the line. Presumably a new hiring-and-incentives system would be inaugurated along with the group tutorial plan in order to entice high quality Ph.D.'s into the field of tutorial instruction...
While the M.G.M. safari was beating through the trackless veldts and jungles of South Africa in search of King Solomon's Mines, J. Arthur Rank was mounting forays along the northern coast in an attempt to catch a gang of gun-runners. The result of his expedition is highly unsatisfying; "The Golden Salamander," despite its title, contains no animals, and for all the good J. Arthur made of the Tunisian scenery, he might just as well have shot the picture on the Cornish coast and saved his sterling...