Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOWEVER the political pollsters may rate them in the weeks ahead, the adventures of Spiro and Judy Agnew, if scripted for television, would rank high in the Nielsens as wholesome domestic fare in the style of Ozzie & Harriet or Hazel...
...very deeply known in this country. At a time when flashy incoherent groups like Cream, and as yet unrealized ones like the Doors are raking it in, this is a strange blindness because the Who are artists of the noblest rank. All four of them--Peter Townshend, lead guitar, Roger Daltrey, singer, Keith Moon, drummer and John Entwistle, bass--have distinct powerful styles which are among the greatest that rock has so far produced. And their collective sound is wilfully original and bursting with the most exciting potential for the future...
...years, the reporting and commentary on international and British politics in the London Economist has been lucid, thoughtful, urbane and wryly detached. That spirit was hardly reflected on the cover, which, as with most British weeklies, merely offered some text and a partial table of contents. Nowadays the covers rank among the wittiest anywhere...
Invisible Partners. "I've produced the people who produce the buildings," says Owings with understandable pride. He is referring to his largely invisible partners, each busy in the five S.O.M. offices and each competing with the others. Among them are four designers who by general consensus rank at the very top of their profession...
...being with but one blank space in his account. Burgess's male characters, with the exception of the cynical betrayer, Rawcliffe, whose death is the most effective episide in the book, are as static and object-like as his women. The characters are exhibits of no more than equal rank with the strange locales and cunning twists of fate Burgess marshals for the reader's diversion...