Word: neophiliac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus speaks Christopher Booker, a repentant Neophiliac himself, onetime scriptwriter for That Was the Week
Part of the time he was writing his survey, Booker shared quarters with another ex-Neophiliac-and Christianity's prickliest recent convert-Malcolm Muggeridge. The spirit may have been catching. For Booker ends up, rather to his own surprise, preaching a sort of Jungian Christianity. Sitting amid the double rubble-first of the Establishment and now of the anti-Establishment -he looks at all the broken pieces and vainly yearns for some master myth to help put everything together again...
...bias of an anti-Neophiliac has driven Booker to underrate some genuine and rather remarkable cultural achievements. But that same bias has given him the insight to diagnose a fever behind the vitality of England during the past decade and a half...
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