Word: neo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish diplomat Ramiro de Maetzu, died fighting for Franco, that Pound embraced Mussolini, that Wyndham Lewis touted Hitler, and that Eliot's Idea of a Christian Society is a rigidly hierarchical blueprint for what his mentor called "the constant society." On the plus side, Hulme helped make neo-orthodoxy respectable, modern art approachable, and cyclical philosophies of history acceptable...
...real thing. One we met said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with neo-Platonism was to assert that clergymen like that 'just want to kill sentiment,' an interesting possibility...
Some critics believe that most of Hin demith's later work fails to measure up to the vigorous and imaginative music of the 1920s, in which he so brilliantly enlarged the neo-classical movement. But Hindemith rarely listens to the critics. In all the 20th century, he insists, there are only two men who deserve the name Composer: Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. And perhaps, his admirers believe, Paul Hindemith...
Nonetheless, "there is no cheap vulgarization," Kaufman insists. "It is a story of a man against his own puritanical prejudices. But if God himself made this picture it would infuriate Catholics, Baptists, Freudians, neo-Freudians, Jungians, Adlerians and so on." Says Reinhardt: "It will not be a dirty picture. We aren't so much afraid of the Legion of Decency as we are of the American Legion and its cult of the mother...
...class by class, the bright and dull handicapping each other. This week Quincy School reopens its ancient doors, admitting 291 more students, still a monument to "egg-crate" education. For a century such schools have changed only the style of their facades-from Victorian Gothic to WPA Colonial to Neo-Revival...