It's achieved standard status.
Although mensch, from the German via Yiddish for "person of integrity and honor," is classed as "colloquial" by the O.E.D., it has earned standard status in Merriam-Webster and Webster's New World dictionaries.
The orchestrations are lush, but, thanks to the arranger and conductor Carlos Franzetti, they never lack rhythmic thrust; some songs, particularly the Ginastera ballad "Vidala," cry out for standard status.
The Criterion Collection, meanwhile, takes a safer punt on Here Comes Mr Jordan (Sony, 15), 1941's winsome reincarnation romcom (remade by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait) that has perhaps lost some of its Great American Standard status in recent decades.
Earlier this year they suffered the humiliation of seeing the UK Statistics Authority withdraw the gold-standard status from crime data that the police record, after the Commons public administration select committee heard evidence that a number of forces had for years been under-recording crime, particularly sexual offences, in an attempt to meet national targets.
It's a page filled with Android apps, but along the top are the standard "Status", "Photo", and "Check In" buttons that will be familiar to any Facebook user.
It follows Facebook testing a bunch of new standard status update prompts like "What's going on, Josh?" and the somewhat creepy "How are you feeling, Josh?" Along with being fun for users, it could be a big help to advertisers, though Facebook tells me it's not piping this data into its ad engine just yet.
Huntley views "Isn't It a Pity" as worthy of "fully fledged standard" status, with Barham's "soaring" strings and Harrison's "sublime" slide guitar combining to take the song "into the heavens, where it stays".
Animals were monitored daily by weights and neurological examinations to determine their good standard status of health.
However, one plausible alternative hypothesis is that the predominant source of inequality is living standard status and that the other stratifying variables are proxies for living standards.
