Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apprenticeship in Boston, Armenian-born Yousuf Karsh set up his own portrait studio in Ottawa because he yearned to photograph prominent men. Now a courtly 51, Karsh of Ottawa is as renowned as most of his subjects. Last week the Canadian capital paid the world's foremost portrait photographer the unusual compliment of an exhibition at the National Gallery...
...resonance too, as in the rousing wail of From a Prison Cell or the ring and bounce of There Is Only One Paris for That. But it is England's dark, dynamic Elizabeth Seal in the title role-indeed, as the only woman in the show-who stands foremost. Without her fresh, bright gifts for dancing and prancing and singing, and her gamine knack for being sinful yet childlike, Irma might choke a bit on its story and at the same time go hungry for charm...
...minds of today's young men are a madhouse," wailed Chief Minister Sam-purnanand of Uttar Pradesh, one of India's foremost amateur astrologers. No longer, he complained, can "every young woman walk the streets with the confidence that every young man she meets will be as a brother to her." An indignant college professor joined in. "Individually as well as in groups," he complained, his students "discuss the proportions of maidens, their adipose tissues and their coy looks." And the coeds? "Bearing and dress publicly shout at you: 'Come and look at me.' " 50 Screams...
...reservation in Britain, a sort of sanctuary for the vanishing boffolo, where variety acts by the dozen still command high prices and audiences queue up in multiple thousands. Strung out along a seven-mile waterfront promenade, Lancashire's Blackpool could well be called the world's foremost indoor resort. The salt air that attracts so many Britons to the edge of the Irish Sea is so often filled with raindrops that all comers are driven inside to watch everything from burlesque with pratfalls to ballet with waterfalls...
Jordan's foremost exponent of speed, dashing young King Hussein, 24, will try any means of locomotion once. Last week, on an airfield near his capital of Amman, Hussein-looking a little bit like a young Thomas E. Dewey-climbed into one of the latest species of automobiles, a "go kart," a low-center-of-gravity vehicle that can hit speeds of up to 85 m.p.h. Driving the little racer, which affords drivers an illusion of Grand Prix speeds, brought a grin to Hussein, who normally makes time in road-burning sports cars or jets...