Word: neo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With reference to the "bold roofs" of St. Paul's and St. Andrew's, may I suggest that they evoke nothing so much as the graceful lines of a revival tent. It would appear that church architecture has regressed through neo-store-front to neo-camp-meeting...
Today Kennedy considers himself simply a "Wesleyan," after Methodism's spellbinding, peripatetic founder, John Wesley. But, recalls Kennedy, there are some zigzags in his spiritual development. In the 19305 he went through a strong neo-orthodox phase: "I took to neo-orthodoxy the way Methodists take to organization." The theology of Niebuhr and Barth "rescued me from the tranquilizing theory of inevitable evolutionary progress and restored the sense of God's majesty. But as the years went by, my ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order...
Ready Epitaph. Neo-Elizabethan Durrell leads a ruminative life these days in his four-room, stone peasant house in the south of France, near Nimes. After a full morning at the typewriter, he putters about building a stone wall, or shoots an occasional game bird, or strums a guitar to his own bawdy lyrics. A veteran of two stormy marriages, he looks forward to the summer visits of his ten-and 20-year-old daughters, who live in England. He is still content with the epitaph he once proposed for himself: "I intend to die young and have the following...
What did Joans ("My poems are American neo-Dadaism") have to say to such an audience? "I told them what the beats are really like," he explains. "Everybody thinks the beats always smoke pot, smell horrible, and all that jazz. I take a bath every day, man. People also think beat girls like free sex. Listen, some of these chicks are so far out that's the last thing they think of. One I know says, 'Sit across the room; just being near me should be sexy enough...
...arts center for Wellesley College, completed in 1958. Trying to harmonize his building with the existing collegiate Gothic of the campus, Rudolph adapted the 15-ft. bay spaces and red brick of the older buildings, used an enameled sun screen to provide a functional equivalent to the richness of neo-Gothic stone tracery...