Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shakespeare's satire cut even deeper than Gay's, pointing not just to people's failure to live up to their ideals, but to the sickness at the heart of ideals that rank continence above saving lives and spur people to die and kill and sacrifice themselves, not for a future where that will be less necessary but in a hopeless quest for a merely personal righteousness. The play is about the inevitable injustice of middle-class justice, which measures justice out as though it were possible to measure people's lives by absolute, fixed units like the monetary standards...
Hugh B. Hester retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of Brigadier General. He is a critic of the on-campus ROTC program as well as an opponent of American Indochina policy...
...this, so small but yet so meaningful, played against the background of what was going on twelve blocks away in Judge John Sirica's court, a drama that future historians may rank as one of the ten or so most important events in the American presidency. The contrast was part of one more chapter of America moving...
...brings us to the third item on the list, the Beanpot finals. Harvard won its first Beanpot championship since 1969 by defeating Boston University (5-4) in what has to rank as one of the most memorable college hockey games in quite some time. Harvard not only broke B.U.'s four-year hold on the pot of beans, but also snapped a Terrier eight-game winning streak...
...afford another long-term financial commitment associated with tenure (even with the federal funding). During the time between the first notice of her dismissal and the return of the funding, an eventually ineffective petition was drafted and circulated by her students. At the present time, a committee reviewing the rank and tenure system of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences headed by Prof. Wallace MacCaffrey has proposed a revision, part of which involves the establishment of a new faculty position of "preceptor" which would allow technical teachers, such a language lecturers, to teach by successive annual appointment for any length...