Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existential kinship to that favored secular rebel with a cause, Albert Camus. During this anniversary year of the Reformation, there will be Luther-honoring services and seminars in Protestant churches around the globe -including several in East Germany, where the atheist Ulbricht regime officially regards Luther as a spiritual precursor of Marxism for his fight against imperial and Papal oppression...
...project that had an extraordinary impact on radio broadcasting and later on movie news reporting: THE MARCH OF TIME. Put together by Roy Larsen, TIME's vice president (now chairman of the Time Inc. executive committee), THE MARCH OF TIME could fairly claim to have been the precursor of the TV documentary. Under the aegis of Larsen and Producer Louis de Rochemont, it produced hundreds of provocative films for 15 years before being phased out in the face of TV in 1951. In addition to its value to the art of cinema documentary, it heightened Luce's already considerable interest...
...Precursor of the new sound, and still its most prized ingredient, is the universally acclaimed jazz and pop-music program, Music USA, that Willis Conover has broadcast on VOA for nearly 13 years. Conover is mobbed whenever he makes personal appearances in Eastern Europe-almost, notes one newsman wryly, as if he were one of the Kennedy brothers. Voice officials rate Conover-and his music-their most powerful opinion molder. As Conover himself puts it: "Jazz tells more about America than any American can realize. It bespeaks vitality, strength, social mobility; it's a free music with...
...something of a wonder that the merger did not take place long ago. As early as 1803, one denominational precursor of the Wesleyan-spirited E.U.B. held tentative merger consultations with the Methodists; in 1871, another E.U.B. progenitor, the Evangelical Association, approved by one vote a union with the Methodists that was never consummated...
...year later, as the members of the Class of 1916 returned as seniors, Lowell extended the Christmas vacation. Hoping to make Harvard even more accessible to southerners and westerners he entrusted the administration of entrance exams to the College Entrance Board, the precursor of today's College Entrance Examination Board...