Word: proto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...word, according to Shaw, Don Juan is a proto-revolutionary, and so his Shavian descendant John Tanner is portrayed as a social agitator and the author of The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, which Shaw thoughtfully appends to the published edition of the play. In his own person, Tanner enunciates Shavian doctrine on such sublunary matters as sex, social convention, and moral passion. As Don Juan in the hell scene he discourses with equal brilliance on the Life Force, the nature of Nature, and the whole duty of man, arguing against the Devil's hedonistic creed of "love...
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...