Word: progenitor
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Harrell, 57, is a white-haired former millionaire (mausoleums, real estate) with a radio preacher's voice and the affable manner of a small-town politician. He founded the league's progenitor, the Christian Conservative Churches of America, two decades ago, between a bout with lymph cancer (he won) and his 1960 campaign to be one of Illinois' U.S. Senators (he lost). Shortly after he built this ersatz Mount Vernon-as a tribute to his beloved George Washington and a home for his family of nine-federal agents battered down the gate with an armored personnel carrier...
...their prized possessions - Old World antiques and Bernard Buffet paintings. A little of this amusement goes a long way; the cumulative effect of Person to Person is depressing. It is no fun to be reminded that the spiritual father of CBS Reports and 60 Minutes was also the progenitor of Rona Barrett - Interviews, Merv Griffin and Dinah...
...injuries--two-thirds of them to police--and 247 arsons and eight deaths." Numbers do not recall well, for me at least, the spirit of those years. Nor does Nixon's awareness of the tragedy being played out around and through him lessen the suspicion that he was its progenitor...
...small circle of friends and servants, and eight of Chaplin's nine children gathered in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the small village where he had lived for the last 25 years and where he was laid to rest in a plot overlooking Lake Geneva. Chaplin was "a progenitor from whom everybody else descends," noted Italian Director Federico Fellini, adding his voice to a worldwide chorus of eulogies. "His was a figure that, even when it first appeared, had something mythical and eternal about...
...without facility -would soon become one of the touchstones of modern consciousness. One cannot guess what form art might have assumed without the example of late Cézanne. He was to cubism what Masaccio had been to the Florentine Renaissance. But Cézanne's importance as progenitor of modern art has, paradoxically, blurred him as a painter. As the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarks, "In his last years Cézanne was reaching out for a kind of modernity that did not exist, and still does not." To gain any sense of that terrain, one must...