Word: proto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head against a stone wall trying to destroy it, the argument continues. And what better way to insure that the army refrain from rightist adventures than to put Harvard men in its leadership? Surely, compassionate and humane Ivy Leaguers in uniform will protect us against all those proto-fascist stump-jumping hillbillies from the South and midwestern cow colleges...
...blinded combat veteran (Cliff DeYoung) returns home to the proto typical family of TV sitcoms. The fa ther (Tom Aldredge) is glued to foot ball on the tube. The mother (Anne Jackson) busies herself waiting on her husband and their younger son (Alan Cauldwell), who serves as a kind of bucktoothed Greek chorus of one. To ease the pain of memory, the veteran is force-fed cliches, sleeping pills and a refrigerator full of fudge, milk and soda pop. When none of their remedies works, he is offered the only other solution the family knows -suicide...
...more than others--is represented by some artwork familiar to both MOMA habitue and reproduction monger alike. Transfixing one in either aesthetic or emotional horror, the famous "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), flanked as it is by examples of the Iberian monumentality and primitivism Picasso assimilated into the savage proto-Cubism of his brothel scene, illustrates the creative process which brought him to his more mature forms of analytic art. The studiedly severe colors of his "Reservoir Horta" (1909) and "Girl with a Mandolin" (1910) show the progression from Cezanne's architectonics to the crystalline space-time continuum that...
...thing fatal which makes me change addresses." The character of these years - a melancholic idyll of transience, conducted in a series of sirocco-damp villas across a classical landscape - is built into his early paintings. It was reinforced when, as an art student in Munich, he encountered the dreamlike, proto-surrealist canvases of the 19th century Swiss romantic Arnold Böcklin. By the time he settled in Turin in 1911, the meditative cast of his mind...
...people, as we have noted, are not impressed: thousands have rallied to his defense, and many who haven't--those who do not support the proto-fascist pro war movement led by Carl MacIntyre and George Wallace--still feel that Calley has gotten a raw deal, and that his courtmartial was not a good idea. It is the children of the poor and of the lower middle class who fight the war, die in it, and bear its scars; the people who sympathize with Calley do so, in large part, because they have known men who have been faced with...