Word: proto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School "is insisting on proto-bureaucrats. More than ever, its ... curriculum aims at the production of better civil servants...
...umpteenth time, a bill granting home rule to the District of Columbia failed to reach a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. President Johnson has now decided to try a new approach. He proposes to reshuffle the present organization of the District into a proto-mayor-council government, using his authority under the Reorganization...
...money for living. Boudin had discovered and nurtured the young Claude Monet, but he did not think that he himself had the "temperament" to become a great master. And so he preferred to do what pleased him. Unencumbered by academic training, he developed alone into a proto-impressionist, fascinated by the flow and flood of light...
...18th and 19th century British painting (TIME, July 5, 1963). Since his mother was English and he loved riding to hounds, it was a taste that came naturally. In fact, his first purchase at the age of 29 was a picture of a horse named Pumpkin by the English proto-romantic artist George Stubbs. Then, after his marriage in 1948 to Rachel Lambert (whom he calls "Bunny"), he began exchanging such horsy enthusiasms for the vivacious vegetation of the French impressionist painters across the Channel. "Like the name of the style," he explains, "there is an ever-fresh impression...
...takes himself for granted and spends his space telling about other people, places and ideas. And what people! Rexroth's book is a Who's Non-Who of every oddball in the nonEstablishment U.S. of the past generation-feminists, Wobblies, Free Silver men, free-love ladies, anarchists, proto-bolsheviks, pacifists, radicals, populists, vegetarians, ragged Utopians, prophets without portfolio and plain cranks. His record makes the current anti-Establishment of beatnik non-opters seem limp and goofy. " 'Free love, free liquor, free Mooney,' proclaimed the banners of my youth,"* Rexroth says happily today. He has produced...