Word: neo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began discreetly as a combined effort of Italy's De Sica-it was his first English-language movie-and Hollywood's David O. {Gone With the Wind} Selznick, husband of Jennifer Jones. Selznick supplied the stars, script and money, De Sica the unblinking eye for "neo-realism." But the effort never moved very smoothly: De Sica, who likes to use nonprofessionals in his films and speaks poor English, frequently found his American stars hard to deal with. The original Italian script was worked over successively by American Authors Carson McCullers, Paul Gallico and Truman Capote...
...Dusen himself has been something of an upstream swimmer against the intellectual current prevailing at the seminary during the past two decades. These have been the "neo-orthodox" years of theological through-the-looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma. Students jampack the classes of Reinhold Niebuhr to hear that man is not good and never will be, and that humans must be content to strive for conditional and imperfect ends...
...called Against the Stream (Philosophical Library; $3.75), a collection of Barth's recent writings, largely on church and state problems, appeared in the U.S. The book clarifies Earth's political position and partly explains its connection with his rigid theology, with which U.S. theologians, be they as "neo-orthodox" as Barth himself, increasingly disagree. By what he says, Neutralist Barth marks himself as actually an indiscriminate "participationist." The essence of his church-state philosophy: the church must participate in the affairs of any state, Communist or not. "The State," says Barth, "is not a product...
Bitter Coffee. Once regarded as a very tough character. Private Eye Philip Marlowe seems a rather mellow and gentlemanly sleuth these days, especially when measured against Mickey Spillane's neo-Neanderthal Mike Hammer. For one thing, the years have been kind to Marlowe. Introduced in 1939 (in The Big Sleep) as 33, he is still only 42, still trim and lithe. When the pace gets too hectic, Marlowe heads for the kitchen and makes coffee: "Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men." But he is far from the pipe-and-slippers stage...
...does not believe, however, that the final reckoning will come because of material factors. He concedes that there is some limit, far in the future, to the number of humans that the earth can support, but many bugbears dear to the neo-Mathusians he dismisses as of little moment. Industrial man will need, and can get, ever-increasing supplies of energy. Coal and oil may burn out in a relatively short time, but sunlight and atomic energy can take their place. He points out that one ton of ordinary granite, from which the continents are largely made, contains as much...