Word: proto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the discussion about experimenting with a more stimulating freshman curriculum has centered on two approaches. One has emphasized a greater amount of course work, and has been criticized as "proto-graduate school thinking...
Open-Eyed Dreams. Born in bilingual Strasbourg in 1887, Arp grew up at the watershed point between Germanic and French culture, has managed to make the best of both possible worlds ever since. As Hans Arp he attended the Weimar Art School, came to know Wassily Kandinsky and the proto-abstractionists of the Blue Rider school. As Jean Arp he lived in Paris, where he was a friend of Picasso, Apollinaire and Modigliani. He first made his mark in Zurich as one of the founders of the give-the-bourgeois-hell movement called Dada. So wacky did the Dadaist antics...
...with the neighboring gang. This rings truer to the spirit of the Bronze Age than Theseus' self-conscious habit of consulting his destiny every 15 minutes like a watch. While the heroes of the classic tragedies inevitably yield to their fate, Author Renault's Theseus seems a proto-conformist in his anxiety to learn and submit to the will of the gods...
...also noticed that intellectual excellence on the undergraduate level was in no way equated with his puritanical notions about the need for work. Apparently anticipating the fact that the proto-academics would soon be required to suffocate in book dust sixteen hours a day, the University granted a four year respite in which intellectual sophistication plus a few hours of work per week would pass for genius...
...scroll community called itself the people of the New Covenant or New Testament, and some of them may have become Christians after the Romans scattered them from their center on the Dead Sea. But the scholars on the ground agree that they were in no sense Christian or proto-Christian. The Essenes would probably have been the first to cry heresy at the Christian welding of all three messiahs - prophet, priest and king - to have been shocked at Jesus' attitude toward the Law, to have not understood his atoning death...