Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native of Washington D.C., Swift attended The Madiera School in Greenway, Va., and after coming to Radcliffe, joined the Young Democrats of Harvard-Radcliffe, the precursor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club...
...fancy agreements, life was fairly simple. The two institutions shared some instructors but clung possessively to their separate bureaucracies. About eight years ago, however, all that changed. Radcliffe formerly revised its relations with Harvard in the so-called 1971 amendment. The 1971 document outlined, in yet another clause, the precursor of the JPC--the Joint Budget Committee. "The annual budget for the retained programs," (those programs that Radcliffe would still finance) the document stated, "shall be subject to the review and approval of a committee representing the Governing Boards of Harvard and Radcliffe and composed of equal numbers from each...
...just in time to get caught up in the first seismic shudders of punk and to join forces with the Rumour, a band that sounds like a five-man scorched-earth policy. Parker and the Rumour recorded their first album in 1976, got tagged both as punk's precursor and then, just months later, as the movement's first sellout. Soon after that Parker's career stalled over a hasty and ill-received live album and a subsequent wrangle with the Mercury record company. Recovering nicely, he recorded Squeezing Out Sparks in eleven days, and penned...
...adapted the Creole and plantation tunes of his native New Orleans, mixed them with the sinuous rhythms of Latin America, and produced piano works as fresh and insouciant as their titles were evocative: The Banjo, Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico. On the strength of them, he stands as the precursor to the great line of American nationalists from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland. More's the pity, then, that when last week's program ran long, List modestly cut his sequence of three Gottschalk solo pieces...
...looks back on her music now, perceptively, formulating a pseudo-philosophy around it, mending together her thoughts. Some of it seems so contrived, like all the stuff Jim Morrison mumbled in The Soft Parade. But it is all worth looking at, because Patti Smith was a precursor and now a survivor of a unique generation of rock'n' rollers, a generation which is now evolving and turning in new expressive directions. Enter Elvis Costello...