Word: foremost
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Every year more than 7.000 clerical students are in residence in Rome, Catholicism's foremost university town, studying for baccalaureate, licentiate (roughly equivalent to a master's) or doctoral degrees in philosophy and theology. During the mornings, they listen to lectures at either the Greg, the smaller Lateran (1,500 students), Urban (900) and Angelicum (700) universities, or at one of the eleven assorted institutes and "athenaea" operated by the church's big religious orders. The rest of the day they work, study and pray at 39 residential colleges maintained by national hierarchies and religious congregations...
...past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic. The author is neither moralizing nor sentimental, and his book approaches...
Unruh himself will not be able to sit this one out, but his usual followers have been noticeably cool toward Brown this year. Foremost of course is Carmen ("Dragon Lady") Warschaw, who was odds-on favorite to win the Democratic state chairmanship at the state convention in August. Brown's aides quietly worked for Assemblyman Charles Warren, her chief opponent, and Brown himself, despite previous promises to Mrs. Warschaw, refused to endorse her publicly...
...humanity," wrote New York Times Political Columnist Arthur Krock, "are as grave as any that burdened man before." In the U.S. in particular, things were in parlous shape. The Government, Krock complained, was endorsing "an evangelistic concept of world stewardship"; it had "discarded the most fundamental teaching of the foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme Court. The Great Society had become "both kith and kin" to the total...
Died. Margaret Sanger, 82, the U.S.'s first and foremost crusader for birth control; of arteriosclerosis; in Tucson, Ariz, (see MODERN LIVING...