Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oppressed race used as slave labor by the Spartans, have started an uprising against their masters. Sound familiar so far? That's about as far as contemporary parallels go. Lykourgos has forced the complete redistribution of wealth in Sparta, and set up communal dining halls where everyone regardless of rank eats the same food. He has established a successful communist state...
...black community would appear to rank a close second to the Puerto Ricans in the amount of difficulty they report with the police," the report stated...
...dropout, Davis began his career in 1898 as a temporary first lieutenant in charge of a volunteer company in the Spanish-American War. He was a lieutenant colonel by 1920, but it was not until the 1940 presidential campaign that F.D.R. elevated the 63-year-old soldier to the rank of brigadier general. After serving as Eisenhower's special adviser on the problems of black soldiers in the European theater, Davis retired in 1948, the year the army abolished most racial barriers...
Rocha cuts to a shot of a government-sponsored parade that is the mirror-image of the revolutionaries': uniformed children ordered in rank and file march stiffly away from the camera, part of a declining historical movement. In the background we see Antonio das Mortes, an old hired killer of cangaceiros, standing detached and pushed back from the ruling class's social order-the mirror of his counterpart the cangaceiro, he is pushed away from the camera instead of into it. A rich landowner's emissary, Dr. Matos, comes up to Antonio and with great difficulty (personal dialectical relationship) induces...
...would be an awesome challenge to rank priorities-indeed, an impossible challenge with the present administrative structure. The Committee might well have thought harder about an alternative scheme to ETOB, rather than coyly tossing the problem to its readers. ETOB is not so much a policy as an abdication of policy. The Committee itself states that no regime is right simply because it is self-supporting. Yet so long as it holds sacred the right of each constituent in the University to spend money in whatever way it pleases, no serious restructuring is possible...