Word: foreshadowing
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...Part of the projected increase is illusory; Dean Ford always budgets salaries for every conceivable faculty post, but several departments never fill all their positions. Still, a good part of the $1.2 million rise--from $12.7 million last year to $13.9 million this year--is real, and seems to foreshadow an even larger growth next year...
Lilac Coif. Three of the most diverting larger pictures are by anonymous masters. The Prato Master is responsible for an exuberant Birth of the Virgin, in which graceful Florentine ladies foreshadow those in a similar scene by Ghirlandaio. The ironic hand of The Master of the Cloister of the Orange Trees can be seen in two scenes from the life of St. Benedict...
Modest Progress. Topping Thieu's list of priorities in Hawaii is his demand for unequivocal assurances from L.B.J. that the Paris parley does not foreshadow unilateral American with drawal from the war. Other requests: a U.S. guarantee of South Viet Nam's territorial integrity, a commitment to uphold his constitutionally elected regime, and a promise that no attempt will be made to arrange a cease-fire by bringing the Viet Cong into a coalition government. Johnson is apparently primed to assuage Thieu's fears, emphasizing that nothing has been held back from Saigon and that no amount...
Bears for Columns. The gigantic sculptural buildings designed by the three visionary architects whose plans are exhibited at St. Thomas have long been studied by subsequent architects because they foreshadow so many buildings built in the 20th century. Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99) was a popular teacher at Paris' Royal Academy of Architecture who designed giant globular monuments as a means of classroom elucidation. Among the remaining sketches of his works is one of a projected monument for Sir Isaac Newton, consisting of a giant sphere pierced by tiny openings to simulate starlight. Today's planetariums...
...that the President feels that protests like Saturday's foreshadow the rise of a strong anti-Johnson political force. To distort the movement's character is no way of dealing with it. Instead, this tactic only serves to spotlight more garishly than ever the intellectual and diplomatic bankruptcy of America's present policy in Vietnam...