Word: neo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not a counsel of perfection or a bit of neo-Renaissance decorum-mongering. Style is attainable (though God knows how), and its absence arouses a dissatisfaction that, in this production, frequently counterbalances and sometimes overbalances the lacquered perfection of the script...
...Spit. In Rome teen-age students -most of them neo-Fascists-marched on the Austrian embassy and hurled stones at the riot police, who doused them with fire hoses and chased them down in red Jeeps. Going before the Chamber of Deputies to win a necessary vote of confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...
When Pather Panchali leans towards the neo-realist, its most striking scenes show Auntie's hollow, shrewd, dying face; it pictures her eating wet meal with long, bony fingers, wiping dirt off her crackled skin, hobbling pitifully around the yard. At intervals she has snarling verbal bouts with Mother, who, though warm-hearted, is not the ideal of the Ladie's Home Journal. In fact, Mother often wishes Old Auntie would drop dead...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...