Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Ashcan. Glackens believed first and foremost in illustrating the everyday life around him. Born in Philadelphia in 1870, he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy, became a newspaper artist, along with George Luks, John Sloan and Everett Shinn, for the Philadelphia Press and later the New York World. Afterhours, the group congregated around Painter Robert Henri, trying to match the dark brown tints of old masters like Frans Hals and recent ones like Manet...
...chosen the tactic for a number of reasons First and foremost there was McNamara himself. The antipathy held towards this man by many students -- "radicals" and some non-radicals as well -- is hard to describe. It was voiced on Monday afternoon in the anguished cries of "Don't you care?" that answered the Secretary's admission that he didn't know how many civilian casualties U.S. troops had caused. Many students who heard McNamara Monday could only describe him in superlatives -- "one of the most callous, arrogant men I have ever seen," said one. So intense was two students disgust...
...same period did little to mollify the growing student contingent of anti-Loebites. The HDC, which had already started discussing possible inaugural productions, was jarred to hear that Chapman's assistant, Stephen Aaron, would direct the first play at the Loeb. Several years earlier, Aaron had been Harvard's foremost student director. Now, despite all his efforts to represent the interests of undergraduates, he became a symbol of faculty control...
Died. Arthur William Brown, 85, foremost U.S. magazine illustrator in the 1920s and '30s, who once said of his craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...most widely praised new Metropolitan Opera productions-Mozart's Don Giovanni, Berg's Wozzeck, Strauss's Salome and Die Frau ohne Schatten-all had one element in common: Conductor Karl Böhm. It was hardly coincidence. Long recognized as one of the world's foremost maestros, Böhm helped lead the way in elevating his profession to its rightfully high place in opera. Now 72, he dates his career back to the days when many opera houses did not even bother to list the conductor's name on the program. By contrast...