Word: neo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the far-right National Democratic Party won a scattering of local offices in West German elections last March, the French press has been running alarmist accounts of what it calls the rise of neo-Nazism. The biggest shocker to date appeared last month in Paris Match. Headlines blared: "These are the Nazis of 1966. Their success disturbs Germany. They have forgotten nothing. They have understood nothing." To prove the point, the magazine ran two pictures of young men decked out in Nazi regalia; in one they are saluting a bust of Hitler and in another, so the story...
...most of the Paris Match spread. On a program marking the 25th anniversary of the German invasion of Russia, the pictures were shown after some film clips of De Gaulle's visit. Said the announcer: "As one can see, West Germany today is a gigantic cradle of neo-Nazism...
Gaiety in Paradise. Like Puvis, La Farge became a muralist. In 1876, he was invited by the neo-Romanesque architect, H. H. Richardson, to decorate the interior of his Trinity Church in Boston with 15-ft. figures of the apostles and prophets. Such commissions, plus his close interest in the Pre-Raphaelites, led him to stained glass. He concocted his own kind of opalescent glass, more in the manner of Tiffany than of Chartres. Its milky jewel quality earned him a Legion of Honor from the French and the chance to design windows for the Harvard Chapel in London...
...remark might well be dismissed as an attempt at wit by a literate and witty professor. Galbraith, however, certainly did not consider it so. Later he added that-although he does not advocate direct U.S. withdrawal-Viet Nam is "a country which has not the slightest strategic importance." His neo-isolationism is less significant as a personal viewpoint than as a measure of a growing tendency among academics and other critics of U.S. policy to believe that Viet Nam is simply not very important to the U,S. It also reflects the feelings of a great many other Americans...
...Local Neo-American Church Boo Hoos" are listed in another Bulletin. The Church, which Miss Bieberman describes as "a fellowship for the use of psychedelics," was founded by Arthur Kleps, a psychologist. "He appointed himself Chief Boo Hoo of the Church," she explaines, "He means to sound absurd because he doesn't believe in taking organizations too seriously. Chief Boo Hoo is not like Chairman of the Board...