Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Goldberg is first and foremost an activist-a man who thinks on his feet, enjoys the storm centers of conflict. Less than a year after President Kennedy had named him to replace the late Felix Frankfurter, ex-Labor Secretary Goldberg said a bit wistfully: "The Secretary's phone never stops ringing. The Justice's phone never rings-even his best friends won't call...
Before flying off to Washington, British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan had dinner in London with Groucho Marx. What did they talk about? Says Groucho: "We discussed the British financial situation." Groucho was not kidding: that topic is foremost in many a European conversation these days. Callaghan made his trip to Washington to counter persistent fears on the Continent that Britain faces a major economic crisis in the fall and to show that, even if that should happen, Britain has a powerful financial ally in the U.S. "They are more sympathetic in the U.S.," said the Chancellor, "than...
Author Guzmán, a prominent Mexican historian who knew Villa well, has long been his foremost defender. In this book, he has converted piles of official documents, letters and unpublished notes into the "memoirs" that he claims Villa would have written if Villa had not been illiterate. Reconstructing the old bandit's speech habits may have been an amusing intellectual exercise for Guzmán, but it does not come off very well. In translation, it sounds like bad Hemingway. In content, it ignores the broad historical background necessary to relate Villa's actions to the progress...
...Words. This is not a role that he fancies. He would prefer to stay behind the scenes-or rather, below them, working out of a basement office in the White House. His title is Special Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs. As such, he is the President's foremost personal analyzer, arranger and adviser on all matters touching the fields of foreign policy, defense and intelligence. Half a dozen times each day, a red light on Bundy's telephone console flashes, and "Mac" picks up the receiver to hear L.B.J. ask: "What do you think about . . .?" And dozens...
...fulfill their idea of "masculinity," do they? They are human first. In being male they in no way interfere with their being human: the two go along in the same direction: forward. But as soon as a woman starts trying to live up to her femininity first and foremost, it directly conflicts with her humanity. It pulls her down into sex, torpor, uncreativeness, dependency, subordination. All of these can have a part in her life, but not the basic part...