Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eulogies were not exactly spontaneous. They came as a defensive reaction to reports leaked by disgruntled Democratic liberals that the 75-year-old Speaker was "losing touch" with his rank and file. Columnist Jack Anderson, Drew Pearson's alter ego, claimed that McCormack's major legislative concern was "the remodeling of the Capitol building's west front." A Washington Post editorial, concluding that McCormack no longer brings to the speakership the "energy, shrewdness and fighting capacity that it requires," urged that he "step down gracefully...
...hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen if I put in a long-distance call from my desk right now? No answer? No such number? No such country?" Highest Rank. No such country. The present has deservedly rewarded Nabokov, now 67, whose novels in English-The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Pnin, Lolita and Pale Fire-have placed him in the highest rank of contemporary writers. These books stimulated a demand for the au thor's total...
...Half the Harvard men with Predicted Rank List 6 are now in business school...
Harvard considers its Predicted Rank List (PRL), which it uses as a factor in admissions, the "best single predictor yet devised of how well a man will do at Harvard." The PRL, which is derived from a secret formula of college board scores and high school rank in class, is also an excellent predictor of post-graduate performance. Of the 88 members of the class of '66 with PRL's between 2.0 and 2.4, 54 are in graduate schools of arts and sciences. Only 17 of the 153 graduates who entered Harvard with PRL's between...
Radcliffe does not use a Predicted Rank List. But then, Harvard doesn't have three '66 graduates in secretarlia school