Word: neo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Sir Arnold Trevor Bax, 58, was appointed Master of the King's Musick, the 21st in an unbroken line since Charles II re-established the post in 1660. Famed as a poetic Neo-Celt composer, Sir Arnold has. never been obliged to earn his living, has never held any office before. His new job, the musical equivalent of Poet Laureate, has been a sinecure since Edward VII abolished State concerts...
...practical realism, to that mixture of tradition and progress which the Prime Minister gave as his political philosophy eighteen months ago. There was a hope at that time that the injection of Mr. Churchill's robust practical sense would turn the Conservative Party away from the Brummagem neo-feudalism of its recent years to the Disraelian tradition of constructive popular and progressive realism, and make it a worthy member of a national partnership. But it is not Mr. Churchill that has captured the Conservative machine; it would appear to be the Conservative machine that has captured Mr. Churchill...
...Roosevelt Administration has kept undeviatingly to the Mellon-sponsored plan. By 1936 L'Enfant's Mall was finished, though the Major's Gallic eyes would have popped at the huge neo-Grecian temples battlementing its northern length. Business houses, even churches near certain Federal areas now conform to the plan...
...paleontologists' rubble heaps and old bones in the New Order. Science writers, feeling themselves full of cataclysmic creativeness, flexed their muscles in the Teuton's chronic, frantic urge to achieve Supermanliness. Perhaps the most effective argument against evolution was the heavy hint that advocacy of "neo-Darwinism" made a German politically suspect...
Last autumn Neo-Romanticist Thomson became musicritic of the New York Herald Tribune. Since then the musical intelligence in that paper-often dictated by Mr. Thomson in his dressing gown (camel's hair, from Sulka)-has been the most readable in the U.S. Critic Thomson knows his stuff, and is entirely without self-consciousness in saying it. Instead of mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails...