He inaugurated his compositions of long duration, those which went on for an hour or more.
He inaugurated the custom of serving rum & water every morning to ward off tripical fever.
He inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other black writers after World War II.
He inaugurated leadership training classes for the top 300 executives, and teaches many of them himself.
He inaugurated the age of massive back-door political donations, now euphemistically known as "soft money".
He inaugurated the apparently incurable syndrome of the "contemporary" as one damned or blessed thing after another.
He inaugurated a ceremony, the Rose Award, which became an annual black tie event of the New York social calendar, held on the newly beautified first floor.
He inaugurated the technique in "The Armies of the Night," a book that grew out of a story for Harper's about the 1967 antiwar March on the Pentagon.
He inaugurated a new column in Yediot Aharonot that ran for the next 40 years and published his first novella, "At the Station" (1963).
He inaugurated the new Ocean Breeze fishing pier -- which was financed before he took office -- by catching (and releasing) a fish.
He inaugurated his career as a legislator under Prince Ghica.
