Word: neo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely discarded by astronomers. Recently, armed with a vast amount of detailed knowledge that Kant did not possess, modern astronomers have busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago presented bis own neo-Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings of Saturn. The disc, said Kuiper, grew denser and denser...
Switzerland's Karl Earth, founder of the potent "neo-orthodox" movement in modern Protestantism, has so far completed six massive volumes of his Kirch-liche Dogmatik, which may turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian's theologian; he can also write brilliantly for laymen. Readers who are not frightened away by the dry crackle of its title will find Christian challenge and mental stimulus in a new Barth book published last week, Dogmatics in Outline (Philosophical Library...
...walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg, of having his dearest creations turned into a series of meaningless stylistic mannerisms...
...into politics as President of Costa Rica's ruling junta, he has never been quite able to decide whether to chuck politics for the bookish quiet of his coffee finca (farm), or to stay on in San José to finish the uphill fight for his program of "neo-liberalism."* Last week Pepe Figueres made his choice...
...Formed a neo-Nazi group...