Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command of the English language," said one officer who served on his staff, and Holloway adds to the impression when he tells his officers, in a neo-British accent, to "go bird-dog this thing," or "go with the speed of a deer and do it," or "let's get our tails over the dashboard on this thing." His Navy nickname is "Gentleman Jim." His press nickname is "Lord Jim." His private Navy nickname is "Lord...
James is the Dean of the Anatomical School of Literature--the Neo-Sophistry which views poetry and prose as a connected skeleton. The curriculum is not particularly concerned with what the skeleton has to say, what it thinks about, or, indeed, if it's starving to death. It's bone-structure, Marrow, and stomach-muscle, the physiology of literature...
...Neo-Fascists 24 (-5 ) Under...
...poverty-stricken southern Italy, where the government has been lavishing billions of lire on public works, that the Christian Democrats picked up almost all of their 1,500,000 new votes. There they scored heavily off the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, who between them lost 22 of their 69 Chamber seats in the biggest slideaway of the election. Naples' swashbuckling, 70-year-old millionaire Monarchist Achille Lauro, onetime mayor of the city, was not even elected to his old Senate seat, and appeared finished as a serious political force in Italy...
...building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical. But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans, a braw dialect of lowland Scots, little known today to Scots who are not classicists, or at least poets...