Word: foremost
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Hersh's indictment reignites the controversy over the culpability of two of the foremost survivors of the Watergate era, the past and present Secretaries of State. For Haig, the story comes at a particularly awkward time, as he struggles with foreign policy crises in the South Atlantic and Middle East while fending off what he perceives as challenges to his authority within the Reagan Administration. For Kissinger, it comes on the heels of the publication of his own memoirs about that troubled period, Years of Upheaval, in which he describes his admitted involvement in the wiretap operation...
...beneficial impact of a committed Christian movement. Though it has had vastly more impact on Western history than any other book more Harvard students have delved into the Ec 10 workbook than the Bible. When you read it, or re-read it, consider the Old Testament as first and foremost the story of God's intervention to help free an oppressed people from slavery. Moses is greeted with these words: "And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come I will send...
...author's boundless curiosity. From the title essay about the life and work of tugboat sailors to the last of the short editorials on nature that Hoagland pens of the New York Times, the work are highly crafted. In stylistic terms, Hoagland's reputation as one of the foremost essayists working is well deserved, he has a terrifically readable idiom of his own fashioning at once colloquial, rhythmic and incredibly even. His writing gives a sense of quiet passion of devotion to the minutiae both of his subject and of his prose...
Vulgarity has helped to make Pryor one of America's foremost stand-up comedians. His constant barrage of obscenities is so over-whelming that it eventually has a numbing effect; after a while, one ceases to notice the four-letter words and obscene gestures...
DIED. Gershom Scholem, 84, world's foremost authority on Jewish mysticism; in Jerusalem. A faculty member of Israel's Hebrew University, the Berlin-born Scholem made a respected discipline of the study of the Kabbalah, a system that uses metaphysics and mathematics to interpret Scripture...