Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East. And it was clearly at Gronchi's behest that Segni's successor, outspoken Adone Zoli, sought to form a monocolore (single party) government that would moderate Italy's hitherto staunchly pro-Western foreign policy into a more independent policy called, with grandiloquent vagueness, "neo-Atlantism...
Gloomily, many Italian moderates concluded that the photograph for which Giovanni Gronchi was waiting was a jolly group shot of the Christian Democrats and Nenni Socialists arm in arm, singing Carry Us Back to Neo-Atlantism...
After World War I a whole generation of architects and painters, in search of a new style, flocked to the standard of Mondrian's Neo-Plasticism. British Painter Ben Nicholson made a pilgrimage to Mondrian's quiet, immaculate Paris studio overlooking the Gare Montparnasse railroad tracks, likened it to "one of those hermit's caves where lions used to go to have thorns taken out of their paws." U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder saw the bright rectangles on Mondrian's walls, went home, set the cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after...
...only bloc from which he might reasonably hope to win support was the right-the Monarchists and neoFascists. The problem was to get their votes without asking. "Dividing us," Zoli told the Monarchists in mild disapproval, "is your hope-your hopeless hope-of a monarchy." With the neo-Fascists the Florentine was harsher. Said he: "I do not seek your votes. I have never sought them. I shall never seek them...
...Sound. Although they are the most polished neo-barbershop group going, none of the Hi-Lo's has had much professional training. Bass Puerling and Baritone Bob Strasen grew up together in Milwaukee, went to Los Angeles looking for a break in show business. There they teamed up with Tenors Burroughs and Bob Morse, who were appearing with a local band. They started practicing five hours a day, soon decided that they were getting good enough to sell their act. The group considered and rejected a dozen names (samples: the Brooks Brothers, the Lamplighters), finally...