Word: neo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turner in England, Delacroix in France, reacted against the orthodox tradition. They were dimly aware of the uses of color, and, though they probably would not recognize their spiritual descendants, they fathered the long line of impressionists, neo-impressionists, pointillists, postimpressionists, cubists, orphists, synchromists and what not, whom the 19th and 20th Centuries spawned. Modernist art is not yet aware of itself. The academic painters are in it only an insolent and half-baked challenge in their own medium. The modernists think they are destined to supplant the older school entirely. Neither is right, and when a true understanding...
...drug was discovered by Dr. Walter A. Jacobs and Dr. Michael Heidelberger, of the Rockefeller Institute, in 1915, after 63 distinct combinations had been found failures. It is somewhat similar in structure to arsphenamine (neo-salvarsan), the best specific for syphillis yet found, which was devised by Ehrlich, of Germany, and Hata, of Japan, after several hundred fruitless trials. Studies of the action of tryparsamide on animals were made by Dr. Wade H. Brown and Dr. Louise Pearce, of the Institute staff, and in 1920 Dr. Pearce went to the Belgian Congo, where she used it extensively in the treatment...
...last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac in "It is the Law". Mr. Hohi fills the part well; it is he who makes the play...
...these cases, all the blue-book phrases-and pen-point terms of the undergraduate are rendered useless; in fact, he might have slept through all his brain fresh. Neo-platonism, Transcendentalism, and all the other pat lecture-room labels go by the board--to drag them into a psychological test would only prove that he had not "the brains he was born with". Nor is the graduate better served. Experience, practice in practical affairs, greater maturity get him no more than a gentlemanly "satisfactory" when he competes with his children or grandchildren...
...golden calf which America worships" cannot be shattered by "quiet staid respectability." Nor can an intellectual aristocracy which hugs the fireside, and sips tea--or coffee, and fiddles with ideas "guide an amorphous democracy", intellectually or otherwise.' This is no time to indulge in neo-classic vagaries. Now, as never before, the world has need of its youth. There are vital problems to be solved, courageous beliefs to be voiced and translated into action...