Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beneath a blue-black thorn crown. Painter Manessier, who was reconverted to Roman Catholicism after service in World War II, began to change from figurative to nonfigurative painting in 1947, also branched out into stained glass and tapestry design. With increased recognition as one of France's foremost painters (TIME, Mar. 21) has come a good share of the world's top art awards: the 1953 São Paulo Bienal, the 1954 Sacred Art prize at Vienna and last week's Carnegie. Says Manessier: "I remain convinced that the quality of a work...
...chairman congratulated Jaeger on the two high honors he had won over the summer and asked him to explain just what the awards were. Reluctantly, the Professor reported that, along with Thomas Mann, he had been named to the German order Pour le Merite, which consists of the thirty foremost living German scholars in all fields of science and the arts. Jaeger also admitted that he had received a prize from the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy's most prominent learned society. The prize, he remarked with a deprecatory laugh, amounted to something over $8,000. And then, looking apologetically...
...somehow Jaeger does get academic work done--done so well, in fact, that he has been called "the foremost of the logically trained men of our day," and has received numerous honorary degrees from universities throughout the Western World, Just as his interests are not confined to his work, however, his work itself is not limited to one tiny niche in the world of scholarship. In an era of ultra-concentration, Jaeger can truthfully say that he has "avoided specialization by having more than one specialty...
...first Soviet artist of stature to perform in the U.S. since Composer-Pianist Sergei Prokofiev's visit 34 years ago is Emil Gilels, who comes as Soviet Russia's "foremost pianist." Following the "spirit of Geneva," he was admitted to the U.S. as an "official" so that he would not have to be fingerprinted under the McCarran Immigration Act. But his fingers are making an unforgettable impression on U.S. audiences...
...Painting became an end in itself. We were fighting and protesting for self-liberation. The danger is that protest becomes an end in itself." The school produced its eccentrics, including one student who wound up in a mental hospital. But working alongside Calcagno were several of today's foremost younger moderns including John Hultberg, top prizewinner of this year's Corcoran Biennial (TIME...