Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked like an outworn creed beside the fashionable stringencies of Niebuhr's neo-orthodoxy...
...still asserts the creativeness and potentiality of the human spirit." he says, "but it is also much more aware of the limitations of the human spirit-for example, it takes sin seriously. It is not as optimistic as it used to be, but it is not as pessimistic as neo-orthodoxy...
...McCullough and his fellow foresters took to the new ideas, thousands of neo-druids-conservationists of the old touch-nothing school-were horrified: "One schoolteacher I took on a tour was so damned mad when she saw tree stumps in a national forest she couldn't talk," he says. "The lady thought for sure I'd sold out the nation's birthright to the robber barons. That happens quite a bit with people who haven't learned that conservation today means cutting down trees, not just leaving them to rot in noble splendor...
Simply sighting flying saucers is out of date-the big spin now is to spot them landing and to hobnob with their interplanetary passengers. Pioneer yarn-spinner among the neo-Münchausen breed is George Adamski, a self-described Southern California "philosopher, student, teacher, saucer researcher" and former short-order cook who claimed (in last year's Flying Saucers Have Landed) that he stood beside a saucer on the California desert in November 1952 and talked (telepathically) with a tanned, short visitor from Venus...
...turn the screws on Italy's home grown Reds. "Italy's foreign policy of collaboration with the West," beamed the Premier as he left the Chamber, "is no longer a party policy but has become a national policy." It was the first time that the Monarchists and neo-Fascists have joined the government on a major issue, isolating the Communists and the left-wing Socialists...