Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's visceral opposition to a nuclear "freeze" is also disturbing, for a halt in the nuclear arms race would seem a logical precursor to reversing it. For one thing, the "freeze" is not necessarily as fuzzy a concept as its opponents claim, and could take the form of a mutual, comprehensive and relatively easily verifiable ban on testing and deploying new weapons. For another, the Administration has yet to make a convincing argument that theoretical Soviet strategic superiority, either in Europe or in the alleged ability to hit American land-based missiles, has much meaning in the real world...
...periodic party where beer is served and admissions is charged is in fact usually the precursor to dining hall discussion and newspaper coverage which aggravates tension and makes Harvard's alcohol policy seem inconsistent and unfair. Put simply: a party which charges for beer and then gets attention for doing so embarrasses the master whose House failed to comply and the other masters as well who suddenly seem unreasonably authoritarian for preventing all-out money making beer bashes...
...treat De Chirico solely as a dream-merchant precursor of surrealism does his early work a grave injustice. In his organization of the show, William Rubin contends that De Chirico survives as a painter within a specifically modernist framework, whose standards were generated in the 30 years before 1914 in Paris. That was "the city par excellence of art and the intellect," as De Chirico wrote, where "any man worthy of the name of artist must exact the recognition of his merit." Paris took young De Chirico, as it took young Chagall, and turned him from a naive provincial fabulist...
...winning, regardless of the score. But this was not every year. The Jumbos lumbered into Hemenway under the uncharacteristic weight of a 12-3 record which included a win over Yale-killing Williams, and an undefeated number one-Saki Khan-to match up with Dave Boyum in a possible precursor to the Intercollegiate finals...
...strain on the budget by raising prices. He was right. When he finally increased prices in 1976, there were major riots in Radom and at the Ursus tractor factory. The brutal repression of these riots led to the formation of the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), a precursor of Solidarity. The organization was the first significant link between the dissident intellectuals like Jacek Kuron and the workers who later founded Solidarity. Inspired by KOR activists, small independent?and illegal?labor unions cautiously began to form in various parts of the country. Lech Walesa joined such a unit...