Word: foremost
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...Secretary of the Treasury, Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd, "the foremost champion of sound fiscal policy...
Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., is the foremost U.S. Catholic student of the intellectual problems surrounding church-state relations. His fellow Jesuit, Father Gustave Weigel. is a ranking expert on ecclesiology and ecumenicism, and a consultant to the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Father Godfrey Diekmann, of St. John's Abbey in Minnesota, is a distinguished Benedictine liturgical scholar. Swiss-born Hans Küng of the University of Tübingen is one of the most exciting Catholic thinkers to emerge from Germany since World War II, and one of the select few official theologians at the Council...
...recent statement to the Committee on Educational Policy introducing an outline of the center's program for next year I wrote, among other things: "The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts has to perform an educational task as its foremost obligation.... All that needs to be done is to have visual experience, visual exploration and visual creation share in education a revelant place with verbal experience, investigation and creation .... Backbone of the program is what has been designated the core course together with workshops. In addition there will be advanced workshops, seminars and special projects. Extracurricular activity will be sponsored...
First and foremost, McNamara not only foresaw the day when the U.S. might be devastated by nuclear attack-but he appeared to be coldly basing U.S. defense policy, and the expenditure of billions of dollars, on that unhappy possibility...
...known for his prismatic paintings of land, sea and city scenes that his earlier career as a major caricaturist is all but forgotten. Though born in the U.S. and always a U.S. citizen, he went to Berlin in 1894, started working for German newspapers, made himself Germany's foremost cartoonist. He had a gift for whimsy and fantasy that stayed with him right up to 1956, when he died at 84. The gift is charmingly displayed in a new show called "The Intimate World of Lyonel Feininger," at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...