Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began, "aim high in your appeal . . . Get in touch directly . . . with the top industrial giants. You know . . . someone who can take three hours for lunch . . . Now what is that type of employer looking for in a secretary? Shorthand speed? Dependability? Industry? Don't be silly! First and foremost, he's looking for a LOOKER ... Of course, this preoccupation with pulchritude on the part of the employer may not be noble and high-minded . . . But there it is . . . It's sex. You can't fight...
Introduced by Abram L. Sachar, President of Brandeis University, as "one of the world's foremost Jewish historians,' Baron emphasized, in his talk the involuntary contributions the Jewish race has made in Western society...
...field, Demos has an interesting position among modern philosophers. It is not a coincidence that his lectures on Plato seem to bring out much of the lecturer's own philosophy. Ideologically he is a Christian Platonist, and by this philosophical belief he has become the foremost authority on Plato, and propounds Platonism, tempered by Christianity, as a way of life...
...Trinity. (The minister who accompanied him to the stake later observed that, had Servetus switched adjectives, and called on "the Eternal Son of God," he might have saved his life.) Last week, for the 400th anniversary of Servetus' death, Roland H. Bainton, one of Protestantism's foremost modern historians (Here I Stand, The Reformation of the 16th Century), brought out his new book, Hunted Heretic (Beacon Press; $3.75)> the definitive biography of militant Protestantism's most celebrated self-inflicted casualty...
...Friday night, the Harvard Glee Club reaffirmed its position as one of the foremost college choruses in the country. Lotti's Crucifixus was rendered with impeccable diction and great emotional intensity. Mr. Woodworth distinguished carefully between flowing counter-point and contrasting chant-like sections, and he never permitted the tempo to lag. After this elegant bow to the Baroque a selection from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust did not fare so well. The attacks were often uncertain, and the singers almost shouted some of the high notes. A lack of preparation was apparent in some nearly disastrous mistakes and the frantic...