Word: foremost
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...Protestantism's foremost theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr.*has written a thoughtful and hardheaded essay on his country's political philosophy. The Irony of American History (Scribner; $2.50) is an odd-sounding title-most native commentaries on U.S. politics stress such words as "challenge," "promise" or "hope." Niebuhr uses his word advisedly. Not so final as tragedy, not so hopeless as pathos, the ironic view is a Christian study of the "unconscious weakness" by which classic American strengths and virtues have subtly developed into shortcomings...
Argentina's foremost composer, Juan José Castro,* 57, had reason to believe he would fare pretty well. A panel of distinguished judges, including Stravinsky, Honegger and La Scala's principal conductor, Victor de Sabata, had picked his Proserpina and the Stranger over 137 other entries (16 from the U.S.) in La Scala's international contest for the best three-act opera. A philosophical soul, Castro was surprised but not overwhelmed at winning the contest. Said he: "I am always prepared for things not to go well. For me, submitting the opera was like playing the lottery...
Lowry painted his city scapes for two decades before a gallery owner spotted some in a London frame shop in 1938, offered him a one-man show. Since then, Lowry has had five successful London exhibitions, earned himself a reputation as England's foremost regional painter. Last week Britons were reading a new book about him by Author-Critic Maurice Collis. Entitled The Discovery of L.S. Lowry, it reproduced a selection of his Manchester paintings and told Britons something of his life...
Light Verse is a dying art, contends Harvard's foremost bard. David T. W. McCord '21, Honorary Curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms in Lamont made the statement after winning the William Rose Benet memorial award of the Poetry Society of America last Saturday for the best poem published in the Saturday Review of Literature...
...time it seemed that, as third partner (with Chesterton and Maurice Baring) in the century's greatest debating team (with Bernard Shaw as their greatest opponent), Belloc would settle down into the role of Britain's foremost Roman Catholic apologist. He did, but he went right on behaving as perversely as ever-regularly downing two bottles of French claret at a sitting, composing rowdy songs in praise of beer, vagabondage and Rabelais, and penning, in Cautionary Verses, those cynical little masterpieces of nursery rhyme in which the jollification of well-bred children was neatly intermixed with gibes...