Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's ceremonies, President Guzmán briefly paid tribute to his predecessor for agreeing, in the end, to allow a peaceful transition. But he attacked the outgoing regime for its "moral decay." He promised to bring new blood into the government-and proceeded to do it on the spot. Sworn in immediately were three able and fairly young technocrats who will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo...
...plenary" session usually lasts no longer than 45 minutes. The delegations then break up into smaller, "postplenary" working groups over coffee, tea, juice, cookies and peanuts. (Warnke's predecessor, U. Alexis Johnson, instituted a dry rule in 1973, fearing that one drink too many during a postplenary might lead to an inadvertent breakthrough-or breakdown...
...intense new Pope labored in the shadow of his jovial, grandfatherly predecessor, Pope John XXIII. It was John's revolution that he inherited, with John's open, hopeful stamp of approval upon it. In the years that followed, the movement that John called aggiornamento, or modernization, became part of a revolution larger than John had foreseen-a tumultuous moral and social upheaval around the world. Both inside and outside the church, old values were questioned, traditional authority challenged...
...however, contrast Pope Paul's style with that of his predecessor, Pope John XXIII. John "had a very deep, religious, rather than Church-political, view of the Church," he said. He added that he would be "much more comfortable" if the next Pope shares John's "more religious" approach, rather than Paul's "less obviously spiritually-based" style of leadership...
Evans truly deserves the title of the world's first modernist photographer. That is, he was the first photographer to break away from the impressionistic, pictorial vision of his predecessor, Alfred Stieglitz. While Stieglitz captured the more romantic-- misty weather scenes and soft focus portraits-- with an emphasis on mood, Evans tried to focus on a clarity and cleansing of the photographic medium, engaging in a kind of anti-art campaign. He labeled Stieglitz's art as "veritably screaming aestheticism." His photographs are straightforward views of everyday people in ordinary settings and the objects of their contemporary living...