Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Negroes were saying quite blunty last spring that they were "losing the battle for civil rights," or at least that the movement had "reached an impasse." And many regard the "Negro Revolution, which is another name for the spread of nationalism in its milder forms, as a necessary precursor to any real victory in the fight for equality...
...Harvard Negroes were saying quite blunty last spring that they were "losing the battle for civil rights," or at least that the movement had "reached an impasse." And many regard the "Negro Revolution," which is another name for the spread of nationalism in its milder forms, as a necessary precursor to any real victory in the fight for equality...
...mind higher interest rates, but the financial world is concerned about the second Kennedy step: the new tax on U.S. purchases of foreign securities. As financiers see it, the tax may weaken the nation's position as banker to the world, and may be just a precursor of more controls. The Administration's third step-an arrangement to borrow up to $500 million from the International Monetary Fund-brought home more eloquently than ever before the gravity of the U.S. payments squeeze. All this concern about money has hardly helped the stock market, which has dropped...
...McMullen has pointed out, "the hobgoblin of modernism: since 1863 painters have been ashamed of reading." The question then arises as to whether Delacroix was essentially a Renaissance artist with whom the Renaissance tradition came to an end, or whether his chief importance lies in his being a precursor of modernism. The answer, says Art Historian Françoise Cachin, is that he was both, for he greatly influenced the generation that made the break between painting and literature final...
Symbol of Unity. As Pope, Angelo Roncalli took the name of John, partly because it reminded him of John the Baptist, the precursor of the Lord, and of the other John, the beloved disciple and evangelist. Montini's choice was equally significant. "The name is a program in itself," exclaimed one Vatican cleric. Clearly, Pope Paul intended to recall the great Apostle to the Gentiles, who, said the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, is "a symbol of ecumenical unity, venerated by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians." It was St. Paul who internationalized the early church; it was Paul...