Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University and professor of eastern religions and ethics at Oxford when he became India's Ambassador to Russia in 1949. Today, at 68, he is his country's Vice President. But Protestant Moses is sure he will be remembered far longer for his effect on Hinduism. His neo-Vedantism, says Moses, "has newly interpreted the basic conceptions of Hinduism." Since the classic commentators of the 13th century and before, "we have not had anyone in the intervening centuries equal to this great Indian philosopher in depth of insight, profundity of scholarship, ease of illuminating exposition...
...existentialist intellectuals. "The problem of the aoth century is the death of man." Most of the writings of 50-year-old, Paris-dwelling Irish Expatriate Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) are opaque obituaries of humanity. Written in a kind of Joycean code, they are further complicated by a neo-Cartesian quest for identity, the logic of which runs: "I cannot think and do not know, therefore I am-or am I?" In his play Waiting for Godot, this intellectual razzle-dazzle bewildered theatergoers, delighted highbrows and kept critics lunging desperately for underlying meanings. Malone Dies will furrow many another critical...
...grand-admiral's baton, a silver alarm clock and 15,000 gold marks, donned prisoner's uniform. Unrepentant and spouting hatred, he took exercise to keep fit, read to keep his mind alert (favorite works: Jack London's dog stories), while his old submarine officers and neo-Nazi organizations still claimed his leadership, and lawyers sought means to free him. The last of these efforts failed in 1955 when the Allied authorities ignored a plea that Dönitz' Nurnberg imprisonment be considered part of his court sentence and indicated that they would keep the Lion...
...Radford plan-and Sir Anthony Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number of Anglo-American troops stationed in West Germany, possibly even-in the excitable conclusion-jumping of the German press (and the New York Times)-a neo-isolationist U.S. retreat to "Fortress America." Adenauer had argued that conscription was necessary to raise the twelve divisions West Germany had promised NATO. Then Dulles himself conceded in a press conference that, as part of a general shift away from conventional military forces. NATO might no longer need so many...
...Negative. An articulate anti-Grahamite is Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr, who has done more than any man in the U.S. to hose away the froth of religious liberalism with the cold high-pressure stream of neo-orthodox polemic. The orthodoxy of Evangelist Graham, Niebuhr complains, is too naively orthodox. Liberal theology had one enormous asset: "The absolute honesty with which it encouraged the church to examine the scriptural foundations of its faith ... It is this distinct gain of liberal Christianity which is now imperiled, with the general loss of the prestige of liberalism and the general enhancement...