This delay represents for Falco a genealogical "back formation": Spenser had to wait several years after Sidney's death to create him as his own
forebear - one whom he both praised in "Astrophel" (1595) and criticized for wasting his talents (and life) in military action.
The two both served in the
forebear regiments of the King's Royal Hussars.
His claim to be the sole inventor of Cubism is certainly exaggerated, but what are we to make of his claim on El Greco as aesthetic
forebear?
It's also about the intoxication of New York summer streets, friendships that revolve around an obsessive sharing of everything (music, single beds, sex confessions), and the ability of post-grrrl punk-pop to liberate a young woman's heart and loins (with a big nod to Patti Smith as key
forebear).
Not surprisingly, George Clinton is G-Funk's
forebear of choice; his intergalactic freakiness is preferred to James Brown's tell-it-like-it-is soul realism, which presided over New School hip-hop.
A quarter of the original's size, this second-generation model has been recast purely as a media streamer with the built-in hard drive of its
forebear dropped.
SCIENTISTS URGED TO DIG FOR SPECIMENS OF PEKING MAN--Give up the loss of the bones of ancient Peking Man, one of man's earliest ancestors, as a perfect crime, and start digging for new specimens of this Pleistocene
forebear. This is the advice to anthropologists contained in Science (March 27).
Longer, lighter and faster than its
forebear, the latest TT is a mix of aluminium and steel, giving a 0-60 time of 5.7 seconds and a top speed of 157 for the four-wheel-drive, 3.2 V6.
An obvious
forebear, Mullican successfully pursued the fusion of spirituality and modernism at a time when the idea had a number of other proponents--Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Gordon Onslow Ford, and later Jay DeFeo among them.
Speaking several years ago at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, which he cofounded at the Wilson Center (and named for a
forebear who explored Russia), Ambassador Kennan said this: "The Russians are very impressed when somebody abroad shows a knowledge of their culture.
Unlike their most obvious Las Vegas
forebear, Liberace, they have never sued anyone to prove their heterosexuality.