A life spanning the Commune, the French Communist party and honoured exile in the USSR made him an exemplar of the official story of the Commune sustained by the communist movement across the 20th century, as the great precursor of the Soviet socialist state.
(1932), a great precursor of François Truffaut's films with children, Ozu tells the story of two young boys whose upwardly mobile father moves the family to the suburbs of Tokyo and who have trouble fitting in with a band of local kids, one of whom is the boss's stuck-up son.
The new freedom and spirit of inquiry in the Italian city-states had been a factor in encouraging the great precursors of the Renaissance in Italy, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.
The bulldozing by Islamic State of Nineveh, the flattening of Hatra, the demolition in Raqqa and now the destruction of Nimrud wipe from the map what were the great precursor cities of the European era.
Lanzmann's great precursor in the control of time was Jean-Luc Godard, who understood that his ability to determine the schedule of production was an indispensable precondition of his creative control (during the production of his first feature," Breathless," Godard got into a fistfight with his producer because he didn't feel like shooting that day).
This was the general condition of the post-Enlightenment intellectual, and it was allegorized, with dramatic force, by English-language poets, who, as they struggled to invent new poems, first resisted and then matched the examples of great precursor poets — above all Shakespeare and Milton, whose dominance seemed obliteratingly total.
It's the latest entry in the faux-video-diary genre; its great film precursor, of course — a work in another domain altogether — is "David Holzman's Diary," from 1967.
7 Furthermore, it is clear that maintenance of oral health is essential for the general health, quality of life, chewing ability 8 and, mainly, the reduction of pneumonia risk in fragile elderly people, 8, 9 for it is already known that bacterial colonies in oropharyngeal tissues and in dental plaque are the greatest precursors for the development of aspiration respiratory infections.
More commonly, the minor masters smooth out what may sound rugged, bold or odd in the music of their great precursors.
A hundred years earlier, Ghazali had written a book called "The Incoherence of the Philosophers," in which he attacked Greeks like Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, and their allies, Ibn Rushd's great precursors Ibn Sina and al-Farabi.
It may well be that the power inherent in these individual efforts on behalf of public health and against the merchandising of illusions bearing dangerous consequences is, collectively, a precursor of a far greater power now accumulating.
