Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitals of Asia. and Indian President Rajendra Prasad agreed to welcome the delegates to New Delhi. The Congress Party's tough anti-Communist Bombay Boss, S. K. Patil, rounded up a delegation to participate in the proceedings. The press began touting the affair as an official precursor to the impending 29-nation Asian-African conference at Bandung, Indonesia...
...strictly dramatic criticism, however, Bentley's virtues are not so clearly defined. He has been heralded as the precursor of a new era in criticism; at times he poses as a modern Cassandra, decrying the decadence of Broadway; more often he seems to be a crank, who doesn't really care for the theatre...
Calling Episcopalians nominal Christians is like the pot calling the kettle black. How many of today's Presbyterians would be considered nominal, if not heretical, by their precursor, John Calvin? It is also hard to understand how he can call a church which runs schools, hospitals, retreat houses, etc., out of all proportion to their small numbers, and also provides a Sacrament for those who feel the need of it, uninterested in moral problems...
...State University, Buck has worked in Cambridge since 1923, and until his administrative appointment in 1945, he has been a historian, specializing in the South of the Civil War. In his first year at Cambridge, President Lowell selected Buck to be resident tutor in Straus Hall. Buck became a precursor of the sweeping change that was yet to come--institution of House tutorial and Senior Tutors. Later Lowell appointed him librarian in Dunster House, and the future Provost immediately set to work stocking the new Dunster library. It was from his work in Dunster that Buck learned to appreciate...
...even the zestful playing of Lewin and Shapiro could rescue Beethoven's Sonata No.2 from its inherent dullness. Musicologist Paul Schauffler has called this an "optimistic" sonata, but to me it seems a very unpromising precursor of works like the Spring and Krentzer Sonatas. In theme and harmony it sounds, at its best, like bad Mozart...