Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Presumably, British Director Trevor Nunn must shoulder part of the blame. If he were a line officer in charge of combat troops-and the responsibilities of a stage director are somewhat similar-he would be stripped of his rank and summarily cashiered...
...world has not been waiting for, nor is it long likely to cherish Glenda Jackson's bizarre offering: a comic Hedda Gabler. She has apparently decided that Noel Coward is really the author of the play. Her performance at Washington, D.C.'s National Theater will certainly rank high in the annals of dramatic travesty...
Sullivan was assistant professor of biochemistry and pharmacology at Tufts Medical School, and also taught courses at the Tufts Dental School. He and all other teachers in the department below the rank of associate professor were fired last June because of budget cutbacks...
...under their courses as Professor X or Assistant Professor Y, but the Faculty Council felt last spring that perhaps the listings should be more egalitarian. So the council decided to dispense with titles and use Mr. X or Ms. Y instead, in order to do away with distinctions of rank...
...this saying. 'Open up your hearts and bleed for these people.' I never dream of saying anything like that. That's too presumptuous and naive to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else...I equate that with propaganda. I think that's a lower rank of purpose and value in your work. I believe in staying out, the way Flaubert does in his writing...