Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unanimous vote, the Pulitzer Advisory Board handed the "distinguished biography" award ($500) to William A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), a meticulously impartial study of the Hearst publishing empire's progenitor. Instead of ratifying the board's choice, however, trustees of New York's Columbia University chose to overrule it by awarding no biography prize...
...denigrates racial purists' illusions of superiority by citing, among others, the case of the "Rehoboth bastards," in which marriage and inbreeding between 18th century Boers and Hottentots resulted, he says, in a new "race" of people who were more successful, in terms of time and place, than either progenitor strain. They still exist, healthy, hardworking and prolific farmers, in Southwest Africa. Naturally enough, the apartheid-minded South Africans call them "colored...