Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legend of Lylah Claire--Either awful or great, depending on how you feel. In either case, worth seeing. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington Street across from Raymond...
...Legend of Lylah Claire--Either awful or great, depending on how you feel. In either case, worth seeing. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington Street across from Raymond...
Frederick Jackson Turner sounded his single but remarkably lasting note-on the paramount significance of the frontier in American history-in 1893. Charles Beard created his most influential and controversial book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, in 1913. He had completed his most popular history. The Rise of American Civilization, by 1927, the year when an unknown English professor named V. L. Parrington published his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Main Currents in American Thought. These men, writes Hofstadter, were the first "to make American history relevant to the political and intellectual issues of the moment...
...Berio suggests a new kind of dramaturgy encompassing music, drama, word sounds and, eventually, lighting and stage effects. Other composers have attempted the same thing, but along the way they have lost the sound and the sense of music. In Berio's intensely affecting work, the music is paramount-and everything in it is a powerful declaration of musical achievement...
...carpeting had been completely ruined last year by food and drinks spilled by students coming from the coffeehouse, Miss Porritt said. "I know that cork is not as soft to sit on," she added, "but sanitary reasons were paramount. We were faced with the problems of bugs...