Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Friday night and Saturday, some of America's foremost liberal economists will come to Harvard to drum up support for their last and biggest hope, The Freedom Budget...
Introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, the Senate's foremost dove, and co-sponsored by Georgia's Richard Russell, its most powerful hawk, the measure had wide backing, reflecting the upper body's atavistic yearning for a role it thinks it once had. If passed, the resolution would have been no more binding on the President than one asking Americans to be kind to dogs. It would nonetheless have been a rebuke to him, and this consideration swayed some members of the Fulbright committee last week...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Benjamin Britten and His Aldeburgh Festival" recounts the contributions of one of the world's foremost composers to the music festival in Aldeburgh, England. With tapes of performances this past summer by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the Vienna Boys Choir, Tenor Peter Pears and Guitarist Julian Bream...
...this country, which was twenty years ago after being called a Communist and finding that the smart New York musical circles might tolerate a Jew but not a Negro, he came to Europe to conduct the great symphonies and operas. He studied under von Karajan then and now the foremost conductor in Germany, who wrote that George is hochbegabt, highly gifted, very fine praise indeed. I have seen this letter and one from Richter, the pianist, saying how much he enjoyed performing with George. Once the Emperor of Ethiopia come to Berlin and admired Geogre's work and invited...
...five years since an airplane crash killed 106 of Atlanta's foremost cultural patrons, the city has been striving with an almost compulsive verve to rebuild civic hopes for high standing in the arts. A new rank of leaders moved up to join the survivors; in homage to the dead, the Atlanta Arts Alliance launched a drive for a $13 million cultural center (now abuilding); and the Ford Foundation gave the Atlanta Symphony $1,750,000. Last week the symphony opened its new season under the baton of a new permanent conductor, Robert Shaw. It was an auspicious start...