Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the crackdown were the rightists and neo-Nazis generally referred to in Argentina as nationalists: a group of unreconstructed Perónistas who hoped to ride back to influence with the nationalists; new right-wing or centrist parties, some under Roman Catholic auspices. Any of these might gain strength by attracting old Peronistas, whose party is now leaderless. Their spokesmen: Presidential Press Secretary Carlos Goyeneche and Army Minister Leon Bengoa...
Present use of the nine and a half story neo-gothic structure is far below capacity, ranging from 550 to 850 students a day. Payne-Whitney officials estimate that during 1942-45 ten times this number were in the gym daily, because of compulsory physical training for all undergraduates and an exhaustive physical fitness program for 3000 Army Air Corps trainees...
...parliamentary form. Before the Italian Chamber was an uninspired piece of legislation aimed at modifying an old Fascist law which gave extensive authority to military courts. For support of the mild proposed modification, the Christian Democrats depended on the votes of Italy's Monarchist and neo-Fascist right...
...Lory's adoring eyes Cash is something of a Neo-Renaissance prince of a man. He flies his own remodeled B26, made his first million before he was 30, and can discuss equally knowledgeably the merits of Italian ham or the life of Buddha. However, when Grant Austen learns that he panicked too soon on Suffolk Moulding, and that McCall is about to unload the company at a $1,000,000 profit, he sees Cash only as a king-size heel. Before the gold dust settles. Cash gets a chance to prove his good faith, and does...
...PROPHET, by Sholem Asch (343 pp.; Putnam; $4) is the work of an expert at making a good thing out of the Good Book. As the high priest of the Neo-Apocrypha or Bible-improvement school of writing, Sholem Asch, 75, has racked up sales of more than 1,000,000 by gilding such subjects as the lives of Christ (The Nazarene), St. Paul (The Apostle), Mary and Moses. This time Asch has raided the Bible for the story of the second Isaiah, who roused the Jews out of their Babylonian captivity.* The book's religious message is swaddled...