Word: neo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third division covered the period of the Restoration and the Neo-Classicists, including among its writers Milton and Dryden. The revolution in English verse which characterized the seventeenth century was likewise emphasized...
...Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution at Washington, Captain in aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director of the American Birth Control League, President of the International Neo-Malthusian League. In spare moments he surprises mice and guinea pigs, studying their heredities and acquired characteristics. He is Clarence Cook Little, President of the University of Michigan since 1925. One expects such a man to keep on doing the unexpected. Last week he did it again, announced plans...
...many adverse critics, in no wise surprised by his change of nationality, hint that a certain superciliousness in his attitude toward U. S. letters caused him to feel more at home in England, where neo-literary figures abound profuse as the autumnal leaves...
...Holland, Belgium, France and Germany now have Neo-Malthusian leagues. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834). English political economist, advocated drastic restrictions of populations to prevent people starving each other out. Contemporaries harried...
...professional aesthetes and their ilk, will wonder how he does it and, wondering, wish that they might do as well, as simply. It will annoy them to find that it is possible to be modern as well as coherent. Perhaps, before long, we shall have a school of "Neo Hemingways", a bunch of these sleek fellows who have been the followers of every latest-ism since Dada was young. They will imitate him with diccrete modifications, without his balance and restraint, and probably they will be welcomed, for this, you remember, is America where we can never get too much...