Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MASAYUKI NAGARE-Staempfli, 47 East 77th St. The first U.S. exhibition of the massive abstract shapes of Japan's foremost sculptor (TIME, Sept. 20). Surfaces are apple-smooth or raw-rock broken; the urge to touch is irresistible and encouraged. Through...
Adlai Stevenson has meant more to America as a symbol than as a creative thinker or as a policy maker. He once explained the meaning of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln was not an original thinker, yet it is to him "that people look today as democracy's foremost spokesman and exemplar. The supreme test of a democratic leader is in his democratic faith--and for this Lincoln stands pre-eminent." Although no Lincoln, Stevenson is important as a symbol and as a man. His U.N. speeches show the man in a different role, one which clouds the meanings of the symbol...
...CRIMSON anticipated Wallace's refusal to debate and a proposal was made that the invitation be withdrawn. After all, if a man will not intellectually defend his code of action, then there is no reason for him to voice his prejudiced views at one of the country's foremost academic institutions. The final article, which I read of that date, stated that Wallace had absolutely refused debate and Harvard would probably withdraw its invitation for him to speak...
...Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stood casually with one hand in a pocket, spoke in an offhand manner: "Mr. President, it is my task today to commence the debate on the foreign assistance bill of 1963." Although long one of the Senate's foremost advocates of foreign aid, Fulbright demonstrated that this time he really did find his task painful. "I tend to share the view of many members of this body," he said, "that at least portions of the foreign aid program are obsolescent." He urged the Kennedy Administration "not to delay embarking...
...late Joseph Stella, it was the high altar of the American dream. In its shadow, he once wrote, "I felt deeply moved, as if on the threshold of a new religion or in the presence of a new divinity." His paintings of the bridge made him the foremost U.S. adherent of futurism, the Italian-born industrial-minded art movement that added space to cubism in the blurring and breakup of the realistic image...