Word: vanguardism
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...Italian Designer Emilio Pucci's non-wrinkle silk jersey sheath that weighs only four ounces and helps to keep Italy, along with California, in the leisure-wear vanguard...
...don’t care,” or even that they “don’t care enough”; it is simply that they do not actively express whatever social responsibility they feel. Even at Harvard, which has served for centuries as an intellectual vanguard, nothing like the European tradition of university radicalism has ever existed...
Churchmen were in the vanguard of the demands for reform, except for the Afrikaner Dutch Reformed leaders, who remained silent. Durban's Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley warned bluntly that "Africans are determined to have political participation in their future, and I don't see how white South Africa can face up to it fast enough." The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Netherlands-born Joost de Blank, announced that he was sending a representative to Geneva to ask the World Council of Churches to expel the South African Dutch Reformed Church unless it takes a stand against Verwoerd...
...much. Even the powerful sunlight glaring in empty space has the pressure of only one billionth of a pound per square inch-roughly equivalent to the weight of two cigarettes pressing on an acre of land. But in the vacuum of space, it was enough to push Vanguard I a mile or so off course over a period of two years. Light pressure is important in astronomy; it forms the tails of comets and is probably responsible for distributing the debris of exploded stars throughout the galaxy. But not until Vanguard I had been circling for two years...
...Carlos ("Potato") Valdes started slapping the taut "talking" drums in a syncopated rhythm, eyes rolled, lips moved, bodies swayed in time to the beat. Had the air been a little bluer and the babble a little louder, it might be any weekend night back at Manhattan's Village Vanguard...