Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Apocalypse Now-and made you gasp with public previews on two continents, perpetually revised endings, ruptured psyches! Last year they made you weep with the spectacle of a three-ring movie studio on the verge of bankruptcy, only to be saved at the last minute by the world-renowned Paramount Pictures! And now, for their most stupendous caper, never before attempted on any stage . . . One From the Heart! It will be presented-without the sponsorship of Paramount-at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in the heart of glamorous Manhattan! So come! See a high-wire artiste, a pratfalling clown...
...month might require the Administration to pay as much as $20 billion in support payments to farmers in case a new embargo is ordered. Reagan also refused, wisely, to suspend U.S.-Soviet talks on limiting the number of medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe, an issue that is of paramount importance to the NATO allies...
...view of dining, Mrs. Trilling's view of young people who actually took over college buildings in the 1960s in understandably unsympathetic. But even if her essay "On the Steps of Low Library," from her book We Must March My Darlings accords little credit to the student radicals, her paramount concern never ventures from the anarchic, antisocial nature of their protest. Indeed, today she seems almost wistful that no constructive, socially beneficial protests have occurred on the campuses. "The students don't protest anything," she says. "I was told that the students were agitated by cuts in student loans...
...institutions; therefore, economic considerations should presumably enjoy a special precedence in the formulation of social policy. Yet practice has made a mockery of theory. The practitioners have done their utmost to divorce the art of the possible from the dismal science of economics. They have made power politics both paramount and as independent as possible from those concerns that govern the welfare of society...
...when it will destroy much-needed organizations, it must be abrogated. In the case of the BSA, GSA and AAA, democratic representation in the council could condemn their organizations to continue to rely on small, self-raised funds. This must not be allowed; in fact their growth is so paramount that almost any method however heretical must be used to promote these institutions. Ideals do not have preeminence over people; the ideal must fit the needs of the people...