Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find for the GSD? The presence on the list of so many persons associated with a conservative political stance and the university version of "law and order"--Professors Anderson, Banfield, Francis Bator, Cox, Deutsch, Heimert, Maass, Mason, to name just a few--suggests that the latter motive was paramount in at least some nominators' minds. Assumedly to balance this possible tendency, I was given the very important right to place names into nomination myself. But this rights was never accorded me, and the slate therefore consisted, and the final committee was formed, of persons of the GSD Faculty's choosing...
...lead induna, or head man, resplendent in hyena tails and impala, monkey and civet skins, carried an Instamatic. Alongside the bare-breasted girls singing for the warriors were some in Maidenform bras. When the newly enthroned Paramount Chief left the party, it was in a new Chrysler. In most respects, however, the crowning of 23-year-old Prince Zwelithini Goodwill Ka-cyprian Bhekuzulu in the Royal Kraal at Nongoma last week was faithful to the folkways of the days when the Zulus were the largest tribe and mightiest warriors in all of Black Africa...
...proposition that the substantive issues involved are unimportant or meaningless, and, whoever "wins." this would further weaken the position of the forces of legitimate scholarship and intellectual freedom. It is, as I say, encouraging to find that there are 107 courageous members of the academic community who recognize the paramount importance of the substantive issues involved and their implications for public policy and who are demanding that this issue be publicly debated on its merits...
...pseudo jocks to shine as bright as your hero as we leave the plastic world of domed stadiums and mod sod and return to the natural turf of yesteryear, where Ozzie and Harriet topped the Neilson Ratings, Danny and Juniors were grabbing gold records for ABC-Paramount, and football was king...
Oswald decided to negotiate. "My paramount concern was to save lives?hostages and inmates alike," he explained later. "We had to give the negotiations a chance." His first concession was to let into the compound a group of outsiders, chosen by the prisoners, to "oversee" the situation. They included New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, Republican State Senator John R. Dunne and Clarence Jones, black publisher of Manhattan's Amsterdam News. But they also wanted Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and the Black Panthers' Bobby Seale. At one point there were as many as 30 mediators...