Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, possession will be less of an ideal. When goods are needed, says Buckminster Fuller, more and more will be rented rather than bought. "Ownership," says Fuller, "is obsolete. The telephone company doesn't know it, but in the end it is going to be the progenitor of our entire economy and life-style...
...success in life," said the founding father, "is not the money he's made. It's the kind of family he's raised." Joe Kennedy amassed a fortune of some $400 million (see box, p. 23), but he was also an astonishing success as a progenitor. Yet the patriarch's glory was brief. One day last week was the sixth anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination. Another would have been Robert Kennedy's 44th birthday. And on a third, the family gathered to bury Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who died of heart failure...
Diabolical Ping. This fondness for movable sculpture qualified De Maria as a progenitor of the busy school of "Optional art," whose practitioners in vite viewers to play a sort of game by rearranging various objects in a composition to suit their own tastes. Avant-garde collectors began to buy De Ma ria's work. He was soon able to have them made up in steel rather than wood, and the games became more diabolical. His 1965 Instrument for La Monte Young looks like an innocent, slender metal box with a ball in it. But De Maria designed it with...
...detective story whose hero is a Parisian police inspector by that name, but so many maigrets have been published that the word is now used to describe mystery stories in general. In a stricter sense, a simenon is any novel except a maigret by Maigret's progenitor, Belgian-born Author Georges Simenon, 66. Simenon has produced a total of 74 maigrets and 126 simenons, which have appeared in 43 languages. Last week, with the publication in French of ll y a encore des noisetiers (There Are Still Hazel Bushes), Simenon's output under his own name reached...
...commitment to defend a beleaguered people from just such Communist tyranny. They have been unwilling to see the logical extensions of our commitments, and they foster the illusion that the Soviet Union has an interest in a peaceful settlement of the Viet Nam conflict, rather than being its progenitor...