Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interim purge director, Chiang Ching uncorked a fresh villain, and one of the least likely: Mao's propaganda chief Tao Chu, who only five months ago was bumped up by Mao to No. 4 rank in the ruling hierarchy-trailing only Mao himself, Lin Piao and the durable Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Until last week Ta' Chu had been one of the few certified Mao heroes of the revolution, providing much of the verbal firepower for the purge. But Chiang Ching denounced Tao Chu last week as a "bourgeois reactionary," one of the dirtiest epithets...
does not surprise his fellow Britons, who rank him after the aging acting knights-Olivier, Richardson, Guinness, Gielgud, Redgrave-and ahead of the young hotspurs represented by Albert Finney and Robert Stephens. Indeed, Scofield, 44, is pretty much a generation all to himself; once Richard Burton shared that status, but as Burton confided to a friend, "When I saw Scofield act, I knew I could never be that great, so I decided to grab the loot...
Against expediency is weighed the draft exam and class rank, two adjuncts to II-S with enormous political consequences. Professors do not like the use of class rank as a factor in determining deferment because they resent being drawn into the Selective Service process; psychologists dislike it because, they say, it leads to grade-grubbing and unnatural tension -- and they claim that grades often don't have any relation to performance after college. The draft exam can be attacked: congenital inaccuracy which makes it impossible to answer some questions because the right answer is a) not given or b) given...
...quite possible that other Faculty members may raise the rank issue and, along with it, the question of student deferments. John Rawls, professor of Philosophy, who introduced this month's anti-2-S motion, is considering drafting a new resolution. This one, he said earlier this week, will probably tie together the issue of 2-S and the University's policy to sending ranks. Rawls and other supporters of the original resolution will decide by next week whether to raise the matter again in January...
Monro said, however, that Harvard would be hard-pressed to justify abandoning its rank policy. The University gave ranks for 12 years, from the mid-fifties to the early sixties, without raising any serious objections, he said...