Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of notorious Nazi War Propagandist Werner Naumann. Onetime righthand man to Goebbels, Naumann went underground in 1945 and stayed there through the bitter de-Nazification period, emerging only when new laws enabled him to escape being labeled a major offender. An unrepenting Hitlerite, he was soon active in neo-Nazi circles. Arrested by the British in 1953 for "endangering the occupation," he was deprived of the right to make public speeches, write for the press, broadcast or hold public office. But the transfer of sovereignty to the West German government invalidated the case against Naumann. Notified of this, unregenerate...
...world food production declined by 5%, whereas the population increased by 10%, and it was upon these figures that William Vogt (Road to Survival, TIME, Nov. 8, 1948) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) based predictions of mass starvation. Last week, however, the world learned that the neo-Malthusians were wrong: mankind, more numerous than ever before, had more to eat than ever before.* The rate of increase of the production of food now exceeds the rate of increase of the free world population...
...there were many regions, e.g., back-country Latin America, where millions still did not get a square meal. On the other hand, some countries were now piling up surplus stocks of sugar, cotton and wheat. And it was in Western Europe, wrecked by war and brooded over by the neo-Malthusians, but solaced by its industry and by U.S. aid, that "the most spectacular advances were made...
...square-mile republic which sits on three prongs of the Apennines in northeastern Italy, is the only country outside the Iron Curtain that has a Red government. A coalition of Communists (17) and Nenni Socialists (14) rules the country against a parliamentary opposition of Demo-Christians (26) and Neo-Fascists (3). The Communist coalition, which won by only 139 votes in 1951, has done its best to make of San Marino a showpiece of Socialist effort. It has built roads, houses, hotels; it has eliminated unemployment, established old-age pensions and given women civic rights (but not the vote). Where...
...tireless interest in the nature of his goddess. Once this involved premise is grasped (if not accepted) a Graves poem can be seen immediately as a model of disciplined lucidity. There are no "unconscious" ravings to perplex the reader, because Graves despises all "socalled surrealists, impressionists, expressionists and neo-romantics." Such "affections of madness" are, Graves believes, the reason why almost all modern forms of art seem meaningless to the beholder; the creative fire of the Western world is still alight, but it fizzles up in willful smoke...