Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern art, like any other, reflects the preoccupations of its day. For example: bombing. Picasso's big, brutal painting, Guernica, successfully symbolized destruction from the air, and last week a first-rank sculptor was meeting the same challenge in bronze. Ossip Zadkine, 60, had been commissioned to commemorate the 1940 Nazi bombing of Rotterdam. He did it in terms of a single, fearful, upward-reaching figure...
They quit the J. Arthur Rank Empire two years ago because, says Launder, "the organization was heading for more centralization and more control . . . we were for decentralization." They even give each other plenty of leeway. When one of them gets an idea for a movie, he consults closely with the other, then does the script and direction himself, drawing freely on his partner's advice...
Last year's freshman class, taken separately, also set a record for dean's list inhabitants. About 39 percent of the Yardlings ended up in the first three rank list groups, also a gain over the previous year of about eight percent. The freshman figures came from Dean Leighton's office...
...chief college grade area represented were the "extroverted" B minus men. Those in the B rank sent the next largest delegation, followed by the B plus men, the C plus men, and the A minus men. Four squeaked by with C minus averages...
Wild animals in "freedom," says Dr. Hediger, are not really free. They follow restricted routines punctuated by terror. Each has a "territory" or a social rank from which it cannot budge without a battle. Each has enemies, including man, from which it must constantly flee. Wild animals are often hungry, sexually frustrated, diseased. Few of them reach maturity. The lucky ones, thinks Dr. Hediger, land in well-run zoos...