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...memory of leather magazine covers, tattered around the edges by the leisurely passing of time in the House common room. It is the memory of the indecisive rap on the oaken door and the diffident request to please modulate the sound on the record player. But perhaps paramount in my catalogue of memories is the greatest of these familiar symbols of fellowship--fellowship itself...
Sorokin submits universal love, "the notable altruization of human beings, groups, institutions, and culture," as the only possible solution to the crisis of modern culture. He leans forward on the edge of his chair and announces that "the paramount task of our time is the altruistic transformation...
Nana Ofori Atta II, the paramount chief of Akim Abuakwa. The second most powerful tribal leader in Ghana, Ofori Atta had been declared de-stooled by some of his restive subchiefs. Like many a chieftain before him, he had fallen back on his feudal prerogative and refused to budge. But Nkrumah seized the occasion, moved quickly to back up the subchiefs' decision. The technical charge was that Ofori Atta had refused to leave his palace...
...discussion that followed Mr. Whiteside's talk, he declared that the Supreme Court was "extending itself into new fields." Evidence of this trend is the friction between states and the Supreme Court, over "whose ruling shall be paramount in certain areas." White-side does not think that this extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is always helpful to the protection of civil liberties, however...
...Matchmaker (Don Hartman; Paramount) is Shirley Booth, and no one can match her when she is on the middle-aged make. Waving her umbrella like a fairy godmother with a poltergeistic wand, she stumbles, rumbles and cannily bumbles her way through the title role of Thornton Wilder's 1956 stage success in a manner that moviegoers with a taste for old-fashioned American farce will have no trouble savoring...