Word: neo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This book makes Germany's losing war in the air seem like a poet-painter's vision of mankind in limbo. Only by literary license can The Last Squadron be called a novel. Using the pointillist method of French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, Author Gaiser puts his characters on paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly...
...young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted in the subsoil of neo-Naziism−bad soil, even if not bad seed...
...many cities where their plurality did not win them control, the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners will be forced to make alliances, either tacit or actual. To most left-of-center Christian Democrats, alliances with the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists are distasteful...
...search of the White Sheik to whom she has already written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes, and, finally, the White Sheik's own secluded sail boat. In her semi-conscious wake her distressed husband similarly encounters many adventures including the shower she had left running in making her get-away, an irate concierage, imperturbable relatives, and an Italian galloping trombone band...
...dangerously overworks. It causes "dropsy"-the body's retention of salt and water. One standard way to get rid of excess brine has been to inject a mercurial diuretic. Five research reports at Atlantic City meetings indicated that a mercurial drug to be taken regularly by mouth, chlormerodrin (Neo-hydrin), is both effective and safe for long-term...