Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right, only a minor brother in 1948, won more than 2,000,000 votes from De Gasperi's center. With their appeal for a return to the tawdry glories of Mussolini, the neo-Fascists won 29 Chamber seats. Biggest gainers were the Monarchists, led by Naples' wealthy, shipowning Mayor Achille Lauro, whose big promises and free handouts of spaghetti and clothes won 7% of the votes and 40 seats...
...Neo-Fascists...
Power. On foreign matters or the larger domestic issues, Springer's papers usually reflect the government line, though his policy is "not to print politics, but to print about politics." To charges that he has been lenient toward Germany's neo-Nazis, Springer answers: "The best policy toward those people is not to talk or write about them at all." To those worried about his power, Springer says: "I hate the word 'power.' I once fired an editor who called attention to the 'power' I now had in my hands." Nevertheless, he intends...
...April last year, 3,000 Philadelphians sentimentally gathered in the Pennsylvania Railroad's 71-year-old Broad Street Station to see the last train pull out. Though outsiders had long considered the sooty old building an eyesore, Philadelphians were fond of its ornate decorations and neo-Gothic gingerbread, liked to recall that it was once the world's biggest station. As the train left, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra played Auld Lang Syne. Then wreckers went to work to demolish the building and the 40-ft.-high unsightly "Chinese wall" over which the trains had come into the station...
...bassoons, trumpets and trombone. In its exploration of the sonorous possibilities of an unusual chamber group, its purpose is similar to that of Bach Brandenburg Concerti and of various Mozart Serendates and Divertimenti. Its importance in modern music, however, lies in being one of the first works in the "neo-classic" style. Hearing the Octet today in light of all that has followed it in the past 30 years, its dry metrically incisive, often mocking tone seems no longer revolutionary. Yet it still remains a fresh, thoroughly delightful work...