Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Launching into a lecture on social justice, the President noted that one of its foremost advantages is that it happens to be "very efficient." "We discovered that by assuring to everyone the fruits of his own labor," he said, "we made him a productive force of untold power. He became subject to the most exacting of all employers-namely himself." Perhaps the most notable feature of social justice, he added, is the knowledge that "the ladder upward is not so crowded that there is no room...
CHINUA ACHEBE, 36, Nigeria's foremost writer, achieves the sophisticated feat of looking at his country with humor and satire. See BOOKS...
...People, Achebe, a 35-year-old Lagos broadcasting official who is Nigeria's foremost writer, illuminates today's confused events along the opaque waters of the Niger. Life imitates art, but seldom so promptly on cue. Achebe's book sounds the obituary drums for "the fat-dripping, gummy, eat-and-let-eat regime" that history has extinguished, and makes clear why his still unstable nation should turn to military government. In fact, his novel ends with just such a military coup, the first of many, it seems...
...Rosi is foremost a social critic, and I believe that modern bullfighting for him serves as one example of a malaise which he observes in present-day society. The thrust of his film is directed not against bullfighting per se, as evidenced by his highly sympathetic portrayal of an idealistic old matador, but against the kind of professionalism which Miguelin represents...
...four-month-old law supposedly ended 30 years of Franco censorship. There were one or two stern provisions in it, however, the foremost of which was that the government could confiscate anything it does not like and prosecute the author. And although the regime had not felt the need to use its powers against the generally tame daily press before, fortnight ago it banned a book edited by José Maria Gil Robles, a Catholic politician, which said that Franco should be followed by a liberal regime, preferably a monarchy...