Biobanking science is implicitly oriented to the population focus of its historical epidemiological forebears as well as to the individualist focus of contemporary genomic medicine.
The impulse had less to do with an encroaching conservatism than with an aim, provoked by Berio's music, to engage more fruitfully with historical precedents and forebears.
"Our forebears never lost historical ties," the activist says.
What swept Mr. Uris along in his narratives was a passionate determination to work his own experience and that of his European forebears into the historical fabric of his fiction.
It has to be said that this journalist did not get up that morning expecting to have his forebears associated with an historical injustice by one of the world's most recognisable celebrities.
It was an important historical date for white Afrikaners, having been the day when their forebears, the Voortrekkers, fought off Zulu warriors at the Battle of Blood River in 1838.
She owns dozens of her forebear's works, and Mr. Fleming, the director of the Southold Historical Society on Long Island, owns 15 more.
Like the OED, it is built on "historical principles", with dates for citations, impressing upon us the boisterous demotic creativity of our forebears, who were no less interested than we are in making up new ways to describe getting drunk (1650: "go to the scriveners and learn to make indentures").
Historical records provide little help, given that the thirst for statistics was not shared by our forebears.
In a class where most of the students are either immigrants themselves or the children of immigrants, the assignment is not simply an exercise in historical inquiry but also an intense exploration into their own lives and the sacrifices of their forebears.
