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...NEOPHILIACS by Christopher Booker. 414 pages. Gambit...
Thus speaks Christopher Booker, a repentant Neophiliac himself, onetime scriptwriter for That Was the Week
That Was. With all the eye-rolling horror of an ex-sinner, Booker, 32, looks back on the English scene of the past 15 years or so as a case history in the "collective psychosis" of Neophilia. If the reader can make allowance for the author's own hysterical anti-hysteria, Booker's survey makes a fascinating study of what he regards as a national epidemic of self-deception...
...approach is based upon some reasonable assumptions and several perhaps questionable corollaries. The first assumption: "No breeding ground for fantasy is so fertile as a society in a state of disintegration and flux." Postwar England was just that. The core fantasy of postwar Englishmen, as Booker gloomily sees it: a tendency to mistake disintegration and flux for the throes of rebirth...
...academic departments, drew loud applause from the faculty. Representatives of the B.S.U. met with Hinderaker the next day to demand that the department be reinstated. Nonetheless, some of them seemed to be having second thoughts. "We think perhaps we made a mistake by demanding veto power too soon," said Booker McClain, a member of the B.S.U. central committee. "We have decided to make a retreat for the time being." Preparing for the worst all the same, Hinderaker rescinded Riverside's policy of permitting students to demonstrate inside campus buildings...