Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flock of candidates who must be placed in the "sure thing" category. Francis Russell, Ambassador to New Zealand, will be in Cambridge on June 11 and is regarded as practically a certain choice for an honorary. Likewise, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, one of the foremost scholars in the country, will probably receive a degree...
Whether a "Home" can be made a true House is the problem now confronting Dudley. Foremost among its problems are the need for a new physical plant and an effective non-honors tutorial program--hardly problems limited to Dudley House alone...
...think it can be said that Cezanne is first and foremost the painter's painter. Whether he deals with a mountain or an apple he concentrates upon the inner architecture of his subject. An analogy with Bach is entirely correct--the partitas and fugues rather than the masses and cantatas. In both cases pure form is the object; in both the most complete spiritual clarity is achieved; in both sentimentality is banished. Emotion is there, but it serves to enrich a work which is as intellectually controlled as art in any form can be. In short, it represents that inspiration...
...Coptic Church traces its tradition to St. Mark, who is believed to have brought Christianity to Egypt, and recalls the days when Alexandria was a rival to Rome as Christendom's foremost city. But the Copts' Monophysite theology (which holds that Christ has only a single nature in which the human and divine are blended) was eventually condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries...
This week he keeps up his customary pace as he moves back and forth between New York (special Masses, dinners, receptions) and Boston (a private reunion with relatives). At 70, Spellman remains the foremost U.S. Catholic prelate and probably the busiest. As he put it 20 years ago: "I shall pray as if everything depended on God. I shall work as if everything depended...