Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...historic conference. Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home. For the Colonial Office's big reception at the Tate Gallery, all nude statues were carefully screened so as not to offend Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount chief-His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha-fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial...
...many cases, e.g., The Key, Desire Under the Elms, defiance of the code has produced superior films that would have been flattened under rigid adherence to the rules. Says Luigi Luraschi, Paramount's agent in charge of code compliance: "Once upon a time the movies had a tendency to leer at sex. I think perhaps the first inkling was in the good foreign pictures shown here that handled sex rather forthrightly but still in good taste. American producers began to see the light...
...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...