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...Anschluss--Alice in Wonderland, 1942, with its trio of figures, the appeaser Neville Chamberlain, a German soldier and an Austrian Catholic bishop, imitating the Chinese monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. And the ever alert Salvador Dali managed to include a number of proto-Pop American images in his pictures when working in the U.S. Painted just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his Melancholy Atomic and Uranic Idyll, 1945, has a bomber in it as well as the first Yank baseball player to turn up in a Surrealist picture...
...president. A dedicated and enthusiastic leader, Rawlins has proven her abilities as both council secretary and its first popularly-elected vice president. As a member of the council's executive board for the last three semesters, she has capably helped lead the council from an insular group of proto-bureaucrats to a student government whose main concern is advocating student interests...
...late Bill Bixby in the 1963-66 TV series My Favorite Martian. A Broadway veteran (he won a Tony for playing the Devil in Damn Yankees), he took the extraterrestrial role of Bixby's Uncle Martin expecting the show to be a serious look at parallel worlds, a proto-Star Trek, and was upset by its evolution into what he calls "a silly sitcom." Since then he has appeared in plays, films and other TV series, most recently as the ethical Judge Henry Bone in the acclaimed (and just canceled) Picket Fences. He remains puzzled by television, however. Says Walston...
Demokratiya, konstitutsiya, parlament and Prezident are all foreign additions to the Russian vocabulary. And although Russians can boast of ancient proto-democratic institutions like the village mir or the veche of Novgorod, where consensus decisions were reached at a kind of town meeting, centralized rule by an all-powerful executive--whether Czar or Communist Party General Secretary--has been the political norm throughout Russian history. The country simply has no democratic culture. It experimented briefly with limited parliamentary democracy before the 1917 revolution. The present era of quasi-democratization was inaugurated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 with elections...
...Varmus and J. Michael Bishop, M.D., also from UCSF, won the Nobel in physiology of medicine for "demonstrating that cancer genes (oncogenes) can arise from normal cellular genes, called proto-oncogenes," the NIH statement said...