Word: presciently
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...Gramscians and Tocquevillians. The Gramscians take their name from the 20th-century Marxist intellectual and politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). As Fonte remarks: "Despite [Gramsci's] enormous influence on today's politics, he remains far less well-known to most Americans than does Tocqueville," the prescient young French visitor who figured out America so brilliantly a hundred years before Gramsci's death...
...quick to point to travails they suffered during their first few days at work - staffers for former president Bush reportedly removed the cords connecting receivers to phones and left office furniture spackled with photographs of the elder Bush and Bush-Quayle campaign stickers. One staff member remembers an especially prescient note left in a desk occupied by a Bush aide. It read, simply, "We'll be back...
...Anything recession-esque that happens this spring will be Bush's mandate to loosen things up a little. Any complaints Bush had about the Clinton years look practically prescient now, and unlike Gore he'll be free to find further fault if he needs excuses. And he won't get the blame unless it lasts all year...
...moment - Gore's Nov. 22 afterthought forswearing the support of any Bush electors should his legal effort run out of courts and time. From this non-election's first Tuesday night to its last, Gore has claimed to have only rightful victory on his mind, but that was a prescient bit of pre-statesmanship that will be to his credit tonight...
That's why Ashbery's Harvard reading was more than just a celebration of the starving artist who made it big. He was here promoting the re-release of One Hundred Multiple Choice Questions-a prescient burlesque, it seems, of "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire"-and the small press that first published it 30 years ago, Adventures in Poetry. Edited by Larry Fagin, a iconic figure in New York underground, Adventures in Poetry was one of several dozen shoestring publishing ventures that burst onto the scene during the "Mimeo-revolution" of the 1960s. The revival of the press represents...