Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind. For if the poor share anything it is oppressors: credit dentists and credit opticians; credit furniture stores and credit food markets where for half again as much as the affluent pay, stale bread and rank hamburger are fobbed off on the poor. Poverty spells the death of hope, the decay of spirit and nerve, of ambition and will...
...white San Francisco warehouseman. "I think it stinks. People are so tied to that crummy check that they're afraid to say boo." Down Salinas way, in the bean-and-lettuce country celebrated by Steinbeck, leather-handed migrant workers?some of them Latin-Americans, whose 2,000,000 poor rank second only to Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle of productivity and degradation. Many men stagger into the fields to chop weeds for $1.40 an hour until they have enough for another binge. Others grind out an endless season...
...Knave, the artifice may be a little too obvious, but intelligence and wit keep it working smoothly to the end. Nabokov himself could well have been thinking of this "bright brute" when he described a certain variety of butterfly he once discovered in the French Alps: "It may not rank high enough to deserve a name, but whatever it be-a new species in the making, a striking sport, or a chance cross-it remains a great and delightful rarity...
Much of the four-page HPC letter was concerned with cross-registration regulations which the HPC wants waived. Under their proposal students in any rank list group could take courses at another college, and students would not need approval from their department unless they want to count the course for concentration credit...
Both students and professors have been critical of ranking and grade averaging for many years, primarily because job recruiters regard them as the most important criteria for employment. In a memorandum circulated in March, the Joint Committee charged, "When such substantial differences in class rank [as detailed above] depend on such a trivial difference in averages, students can only be encouraged to make grades into a fetish...