Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appointed to succeed the assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Goodell performed an ideological pirouette?from moderately conservative Congressman to flaming-liberal Senator. The maneuver won little critical acclaim, smacking too much of rank opportunism to appease his broadened constituency...
Among Harvard dropouts, the higher the intelligence-or, more accurately, the academic potential as measured by Projected Rank List (PRL)-the more likely he is to drop out for psychiatric reasons, according to a Medical School psychiatrist...
...RICHARD NIXON (after a 1960 meeting): "In his rather strange post as Vice President, I find in him one of those outspoken and strong persons on whom one feels one could count in serious matters if one day he acquired a position of first rank...
...roots: the public schools. He thinks that the open-admissions policy is already encouraging more slum kids to try for college and refuse to settle for general diplomas. Even under C.U.N.Y.'s new policy, those entering four-year colleges must either have earned an 80% average or rank in the top half of their school classes. Bowker is also mindful that C.U.N.Y. supplies 60% of the city's schoolteachers and reasons that his new minority students will eventually raise the schools' low ratio (11%) of minority teachers. Moreover, he wants C.U.N.Y. to take over several city high...
...boxing footage cannot compare to the celebrated gutfights of Body and Soul and The Harder They Fall. Moreover, Director Martin Ritt has staged some segments as if they were to be razzed at a Panther rally. One in particular, when a prayer is chanted for the Black Hope, must rank as the most patronizing view of Negro life since Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...