Word: neo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could use similar materials to make some big figures." One of her early efforts was a huge, whorelike Statue of Liberty reclining on a couch, done as a float for the Freedom Day Parade in Manhattan. "I liked her, but she was destroyed immediately by a band of Neo-Nazis," remembers Miss Leaf. "They tore her apart, I mean they really raped...
Serious Difficulties. With greater or less enthusiasm, the Social Democrats and Kiesinger favor 1) signing the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, 2) banning Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden's reactionary National Democrats in order to deprive neo-Nazis of a shield of respectability, and 3) eliminating the legal deadline on murder charges to allow the judiciary to weed out the last remaining Nazi war criminals. Strauss takes the opposite position on each issue, and has been using his growing strength in his Hausmacht (power base) to give weight to his views...
...language transpositions from the Greek lack eloquence, spareness or precision, and the contemporary colloquialisms iar the ear. Lines like "You mean you intend to kill your mother?" produce wildly inappropriate laughter from an audience saturated with Freud. The prevailing style of the evening is that of neo-Shakespearean swashbuckling, and the barely adequate cast seems to relish all opportunities for bombast and comic clowning. The chorus resembles the witches from Macbeth multiplied. The murders might as well have been performed by Richard III. Elizabethan Greeks are a novelty all right, but they reduce the play to historical pageantry, horseplay...
That exposed a critical weakness in the neo-Keynesian economics, which relies primarily on delicate adjustments in taxes, government spending and monetary policy to keep the economy running close to capacity. The New Economics had served well when business needed a push. But Britain's Keynes presumed that policymakers would always be wise enough, given knowledge of his theories, to do the right thing at the right moment. In the U.S., however, political leaders are usually unwilling to raise taxes quickly enough in overly expansive periods. The theories of the New Economics have not been found wanting; they have...
...Thinker's Grappling. Despite his acknowledged eminence, Barth's masterwork, Church Dogmatics, is one of the least-read great books of the century, and Barthian neo-orthodoxy now seems almost as old hat as the orthodoxy it displaced. Yet Barth wanted no disciples-except, he said, for his own sons Markus, a professor at Pittsburgh Theology Seminary, and Christoph, a Biblical scholar at the University of Mainz, Germany-and he often told students: "Don't repeat what I have said. Learn to think for yourselves." He tried firmly to shun theological fashion, and his constant goal...