Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acheson committee is designed to counterbalance the alliance of professors that, under the auspices of Nixon's foremost Democratic rival, Senator Edward Kennedy, recently issued a 340-page report critical of the ABM. In a letter introducing the committee, Acheson denied that its intent was to plead for high defense budgets, explaining that it sought merely to foster "balanced debate" on such issues as ABM. However, he left no doubt as to where the committee would stand on the ABM. Charging that the opposition proposed a "one-sided United States moratorium" on defense-missile systems, he ridiculed this...
...idle moment 700 years ago, two French monks began batting a ball around a monastery courtyard with crude wooden paddles. Thus was launched a royal rage. The impromptu game, which came to be known as court tennis, spread from cloister to castle and soon ranked as the foremost sport of kings. Louis X so overextended him self chasing balls that he became ill and died shortly after a match. Henry VIII was reportedly puffing around the court when aides informed him that Anne Boleyn's beheading had been accomplished. In 1641, Louis XIII of France defeated Philip...
...doing with Andy, and the result is a series of dreary, druggy improvisational harangues by such luminaries as Tom Hompertz, Joe Dallesandro and Viva!, the superest Warhol superstar of them all. Now that Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi have passed on, Viva! stands unrivaled as the screen's foremost purveyor of horror. By the simple expedient of removing her clothing, she can produce a sense of primordial terror several nightmares removed from any mad doctor's laboratory...
...must dedicate yourself," says Hutchins, "to trying to understand things, and you must do this without regard for your source of financing." Clearly, this means that intellectuals should not keep quiet. Are they also obliged to propose alternatives to policies that they condemn? Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti believes that "the foremost contribution of intellectuals is dissent. To be opposed to the atomic bomb is not exactly negative thinking." It is also easy. The harder task is to be constructive about problems that are tougher because they may be soluble...
Died. Julius Katchen, 42, U.S. concert pianist and recording artist, considered one of the world's foremost performers of Brahms; of cancer; in Paris. A New Jersey-born child prodigy who made his debut at eleven, Katchen won acclaim for his brilliant performances of Brahms' complete solo works, also recorded some of Beethoven's major concertos and was at home throughout the range of classical repertory. Though he was well enough known at home, his greatest popularity was in Europe, where he spent most of his adult life, exemplifying in his playing the ambience of an older...