Word: neo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future of creative composing could hardly have been more doubtful or insecure, than in the late thirties. The gulf between composer and listener had grown steadily wider. Under the barrage of clever and unappealing work that the atonalists, impressionists, neo-classicists, etc. turned out, the critics became evasive and began to accept each new work with equal tolerance and an equal lack of enthusiasm. That isn't to say that competent, entertaining music wasn't turned out in the twenties or thirties, but rather that the composers were mainly experimentalists, interested in playing with effects...
...young man, visualized a reunion of all Christian creeds under one church. He was so attached to the medieval way of life that nearly all his voluminous writings (My Life in Architecture, The End of Democracy) were concerned with his vision of its resurgence. His dream of the neo-medieval future included: a return of self-sufficient walled towns; a return of craftsmen's guilds; abolition of mass production; abolition of gunpowder, the printing press, the combustion engine; "return to the land"; a semi-monarchical political setup for the U.S., which would be ruled by a chief elected...
...about 500 pages on, in a long, catastrophic chapter, the whole machine flies apart, giving off humanistic, neo-christian, marxian, capitalistic and fascist sparks which generate great excitement, but not the terrifying image of man-at-the-edge-of-doom which was intended...
...totalitarianism harked back fondly to the ancien regime. It was monarchical, clerical, aristocratic. The Marshal wanted to expunge the memory of the French Revolution. But while he felt that French totalitarianism depended largely on the success of Nazi totalitarianism, he did not want his neofeudal France to be a neo-vassal state of Germany's. He kept making this clear to Germany with his creaking stubbornness about the sanctity of the French Fleet and the African colonies...
...fled into the Hotel du Caveau. His name was Pierre Vautier. It turned out that he had defied his father by quitting St. Cyr (the French West Point) and taking a job in an art gallery. "It was a small gallery that specialized in ultramodern paintings of the neo-Cubistic school, the sight or mention of which had, on many occasions, nearly proven disastrous to the father's brittle arteries. Vautier the Elder's aversion to the gallery and its wares had been heightened by the indisputable fact that practically all of the other employes, the owner, most...