Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pantheon (First-Rank Auteurs...
RICKY NELSON, a disciple of Elvis, is the only derivative member of the first rank, but his place is assured by the bulk of his work and the single detached, cool style in which he approaches all his material, be it the affirmative I Believe, the despondent Lonesome Town, the hopeful I Got a Feeling, or the philosophical A Teenager's Romance. When his fortune is good in Travelin' Man or bad in Poor Little Fool, when he's successful in Be Bop or luckless in Stood Up, Rick's archetypal voice reveals no emotion --just the casual sneer...
FREDDY CANNON'S position has been lifted to the top of the second rank only in recent years, as students have come to appreciate the Boom-Boom's husky, 150 per cent voice, the kind that anyone can imitate if he doesn't mind being hoarse the rest of the day. Cannon's best song, Palisades Park, is extra-auteur; he owes his place to the "whoooo" of Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Talla-hassie Lassie, and Transistor Sister...
LoPucki eased through his matches, 5-4 and 2-1, and Rank Heisler, number five, clinched his matches early with pars on the 12th and 16th holes...
...Europeans. The highest savers of all are the Japanese, whose people, companies and government together save and reinvest 36% of the gross national product-compared with 18% in the U.S. Emphasizing tomorrow's growth at the expense of today's income, Japan this year will rank third in the world in G.N.P., after the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., but 20th in per-capita income. One of the secrets of Japan's 11.4% average annual growth rate, compared with the U.S.'s 4.3% during the 1960s, is that Japan permits its businessmen to deduct from their taxes...