Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire generation of military leaders has already made of the war in the Middle East a lifetime occupation. Last week three of the region's most skilled and tenacious commanders emerged at the forefront of the struggle, the operational heads of the Egyptian, Syrian and Israeli armies. The new commanders...
This and many other oddly simple cures are credited to the foxy grandpa of American hypnotism, Milton H. Erickson. At 71, Erickson stands in the forefront of a revival of hypnotherapy-in eclipse since Freud rejected it as too superficial and impermanent. "Erickson is the most innovative practitioner of hypnosis since Mesmer," says Dr. Thomas Hackett, chief of the psychiatric consultation service at Massachusetts General Hospital. Although Erickson sometimes uses deep hypnotic trances to work his will on his psychiatric patients, he often limits himself to straightforward commands. He does not, however, explain the exact psychological mechanism behind his cures...
...speak here in the University of Guadalajara, which is a university in the forefront, and I am certain that you will do your patriotic obligation and work in the provinces, working with miners, industrial workers and peasants. The obligation of one who studied here is not to forget that this is a state university, which is maintained by the taxpayers, of whom the great majority are workers. And disgracefully, in this university as in the universities of my country, the number of sons and daughters of peasants and workers is still at a low level...
RICHARD D. LAMM, 38, Colorado state legislator who is in the forefront of brash new band of growth critics. Led successful campaign against locating the 1976 Winter Olympics in Vail and Steamboat Springs, on ground that the Games would cost the taxpayers too much, lead to overdevelopment of trailer parks, second homes and industry and attract huge crowds of people - some of whom might settle in Colorado...
...fragments of programs advertising "I'aventure de I'art abstrait" seem incongruous, amidst the terms of abstract impersonality. For surrounding the bits of cut and pasted everyday material are the gruff lines and shapes of Motherwell's own brand of abstract expressionism. But the elements which move to the forefront are the individual ones: it is the artist's signature which is rendered large and explained by the inclusion of materials reflecting the artist's day-to-day life and basic set of mind...