Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still not up to the colorful semi-abstractions he painted before the party high command ordered a change to "socialist realism." But Guttuso had progressed a long way from his first tortured attempts to illustrate the party line (TIME, Oct. 2, 1950). "Of all those who participate in the neo-realistic current," wrote the critic of Fiera Letteraria, "Guttuso stands alone . . . with his singular and exemplary force of composition." The public liked Renato's new work, too; most of the pictures were sold in two weeks...
Guttuso, a ruggedly handsome man of 41, concedes that his earlier neo-realistic work left a lot to be desired. But the pictures in the present show are "less rigid, most flexible ... I think my work is becoming less intentional and more natural...
Violation of Sanctuary. Next day, there was another clash between police and demonstrators, mostly students (but including some neo-Fascist toughs). This time the police used fire hoses and tear gas. They chased some of the rioters into the famous old Church of San Antonio, and in a surprising violation of the traditional right of sanctuary, continued to swing their clubs inside...
...almost every Briton knows, the school called St. Trinian's is a strange, spooky, neo-Gothic institution based somewhere in England. At St. Trinian's, gargoylish women in high-collared dresses and spindle-shanked girls in mussy black tunics go blithely through term after term of arson, mayhem and murder. For sheer energy, the St. Trinian's girl has no match...
...Bevan was the first to recognize them; Churchill, his mortal foe, tapped them in his famed Locarno speech in which he called for a "parley at the summit" (TIME, May 18). Yet it is a milder man than either who most sums up this strange new British brand of neo-neutralism in the cold war. His name is Clement Attlee...