Word: neo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similarly heartening to note the faculty co-operation in the campaign. A classics professor has offered his services as "A Homer," an English professor has promised to place the neo-Homeric chronicle in the main-stream of American literature, and an Economics professor has promised to mention the campaign in his forthcoming Book-of-th-Month Club selection...
Woman of Rome, contrary to the Brattle's poor-taste ads, is no frolicking bedroom comedy. It is of the school of Italian neo-realism which proclaims that this is the worst of all possible worlds, and with Ecclesiastes that the greatest disaster in a man's life is the day that he is born. The film, and Alberto Moravia's novel from which it was drawn, reflect an uncompromising disgust for man and his works. Love, friendship, honesty, are all shams, and everyone, whether by his will or no, is doomed to a mire of depravity and frustration...
...Harvard Theologian Tillich stresses the transcendence of God, i.e., that God is outside all things, while Neo-Naturalist Philosopher Wieman stresses the immanence of God, i.e., that God is within all things...
Sahl said that after this, the club president recited one of his works, of the "neo-realistic school." Sahl heard only a word of it before he left the meeting. It was "Weeds...
...unsavory subject is a homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist...