Word: progenitor
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...ways as significant a painting as Picasso's first major cubist painting, the 1907 Demoiselles d'Avignon. A subtly seething, 8-ft.-high panorama, The Birth of the World, says Rubin, is "in retrospect the point of departure in modern painting," making Miró "the major European progenitor of abstract expressionism." As is often true with Miró paintings, the title offers a clue. It is named for the way in which it was painted, for he re-enacted, so to speak, the first chapters of Genesis. At first, he covered his canvas with spots, drips and washes...
...best, the SFAC is the "debating society" that progenitor Stanley Hoffmann hoped it would never become. Three question-and-answer sessions--with President Pusey, John B. Fox Jr. '59 of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, and three SDS officials--have spiced up proceedings somewhat, but they have led to few important discoveries and no action. Committee work too has been largely ineffective and for the most part unenlightening...
Erik Erikson, one of the idols of this college generation (his books are required reading at 800 colleges), coined the term "identity crisis" to describe the internal revolution experienced at this time of life. Probably few terms have come back to haunt their progenitor more perniciously than this one. Whenever a sophisticated adolescent scents trouble from an authority figure, he tends to justify himself on the ground of validity of his "identity crisis," and on this basis, to demand acceptance and even succor. In a way, this perverse reaction points up Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated...
...Beatles are putting down everyone--the eggman (the primordial progenitor of mankind) and also the eggmen, all the people walking around today producing and propagating. We're all Lewis Carroll's walrus, crying while we destroy the young but destroying them anyway...
A.F.P. is the direct descendant of the Havas news agency, the stodgy progenitor of all agency reporting, established in 1835 by Charles Havas. Used by the Germans for their own purposes, mostly propaganda, during World War II, the agency was forced to start from scratch as a government enterprise in 1944 under the name Agence France Presse. It played a slow, largely interpretive fourth flute to AP, UPI and Reuters for a decade...