Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generally operated on the theory of a laissez-faire of merit. Despite its injustices?the disastrous schooling of the poor, for example?the diverse system has remained sufficiently open to allow leadership to rise from nearly every rank of the society. In fact, the WASP establishment has long wondered what went wrong, how it lost control to the coarse ethnic heirs of Jacksonianism. The dispossessed of American life are to be found in The Education of Henry Adams as well as The Autobiography of Malcolm...
...original of the great scientists, but also the closest to being a religious mystic, seeking to justify his faith by finding regularity in the universe. Unless Harvard can teach lessons like this, and like Toynbee's demonstration of the life-giving force of religious ideas in society, its possible rank as the best American university will prove of no ultimate value...
...business history. At last week's prices, buying the necessary shares would cost Mobil (which already owns 4.5% of Marcor's stock) at least $350 million. Adding Marcor's $4 billion 1973 sales to Mobil's $11 billion would boost Mobil from seventh rank in the FORTUNE 500 list to fourth...
...round England took comfort from the fact that since Laura Jo is Roman Catholic, Charles is forbidden by law to marry her. Anyway, in an interview Charles gave to the London Observer Charles stuck to his previous statement that he would marry someone more or less of his own rank. "Marriage," he said, "isn't an 'up' or 'down' issue. It's a side-by-side...
...stream of protests over housing prompted the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life to reconsider the assignment system. On a motion by Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, the advisory group voted in December to abolish all House quotas for concentration, school background, and rank in class. Masters also lost their time-honored right to pick some residents of their Houses...