Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tainted" money--research money from some sinister branch of the military or intelligence--has assumed a huge importance lately. Foremost in the minds of those who want to establish a joint committee to investigate University complicity in the war in Vietnam are the questions: How many Harvard faculty members have been doing research with this "tainted" money? And, are they helping to prosecute the war with their research...
...creation of Widener Library was forwarded by Coolidge, who left it the fifth largest library in the world. A fellow historian, Professor Roger B. Merriman, noted that the characterization of Widener Library as the best, place to work in he world, if justified, "is due first and foremost to Archibald Cary Coolidge...
Drama is far less emergent in Africa than the new nations themselves. The special gift of Nigeria's Wole Soyinka,* the continent's foremost black playwright, is to speak to Africans about Africa in the concrete context of today but with a keen residual sense of the past. He is emancipated without being alienated. Blending mock humor with flare-lit passion, he is both a satirist and a mythopoet...
...most critics, Willem de Kooning at 63 is the foremost living U.S. painter to emerge in the postwar period. But the reclusive white-locked dean of a bstract expressionism has not had a Manhattan exhibit of new work in five years, largely because the attendant bustle drives him to the brink of distraction. Thus, when 45 De Kooning oils and 50 drawings, mostly completed in the past four years, went on view at Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. this week, it was the most eagerly anticipated art gallery exhibit of the season...
...issues besides the war. This line of questioning seemed to impress McCarthy. He acknowledged that a one-issue campaign would fail and agreed on the need to raise more issues. But even though McCarthy may attack the war on a variety of grounds, the moral issue will always be foremost in his mind...