Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a horseback-riding injury ruled out the usual boyhood sports. That same year, he entered his father's Austin in a hill-climbing race and finished second in his class. By the time he was 21 he had established himself as his country's foremost driver; so off he went to Europe to try his hand and foot at big-time racing. For the next five years, he learned his craft as a member of the Cooper factory team, working his way up to Grand Prix competition. But he always wanted to build as well as drive...
...Jane Jacobs, an astute urban gadfly (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), says New York should be divided into units of 100,000. A recent Royal Commission recommended reorganizing London into boroughs of about 200,000 (London already has limited decentralization). Author Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost students of the city, is more flexible. A "humanly lovable city," he says, "must range somewhere between 30,000 and 300,000 people...
...speaker defending Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis was no gossip columnist or pundit-indeed, few society reporters were so disposed. He was Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Prince of the Holy Roman Church and-as it turned out last week-foremost a friend in need...
Error and Ignorance. The particular infallibility that is claimed for the Pope is based, in part, on Jesus' words to Peter in Matthew 16:18. "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church." Simons argues that Jesus was simply singling out Peter as the foremost of the Apostles and was not investing him with a special spiritual charisma in teaching. In any case, he adds, "if the evidence for ecclesiastical infallibility is not valid, the case for papal infallibility collapses with...
...every right because Mayer has assembled a truly magnificent little cast, distinguished by an incredible variety of voices. Foremost among the voices is that of Yolande Bevan, who lifts the chorus to her own extraordinary level, but not much less distinctive are the speaking styles of Edward Finnegan and Donald Marye, as Cadmus and Teiresias. The best performance of the lot, however, has to be that by Patricia Cutts, who bravely circumvents the sort of theatrics to be expected in a woman who has killed her son and partaken of his remains...