Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in regard to Professor James R. Russell's shameless assessment of the Matthew Shepard killing ("No Resurrection This Time," Opinion. Oct. 26). The abandon with which he shifts the blame from the killers to "the neo-conservative movement" and to "Christian Coalition types" is rather disturbing, as well as his mentioning the names of Irving Kristol, Richard John Neuhaus, Pat Buchanan and our own Harvey C. Mansfield '53 in connection with the gruesome murder...
...look at the facts here. One gay student was murdered by two despicable characters in Wyoming. Those boys deserve swift justice and should be punished as harshly as the law allows. They alone are responsible for their actions. Russell has made neo-conservatives and the religious-right his scapegoats. Quick to condemn them all for an alleged hatred of homosexuals, he exhibits his own intolerance. BRONWEN C. McSHEA...
...neo-conservative movement (let's call them Neo-Conmen for short) has made gays its scapegoat: Andrew Sullivan, a devout Catholic and old-fashioned Republican who is also gay, wrote a good article about these neo-conmen and their witch-hunting in last week's Sunday Times Magazine...
...nearly an old leftist, certainly no paragon of virtue, to stand in judgement of anybody else? Involvement in history and retreat from engagement make us accomplices. And yet, the ideas of the neo-Conmen are so smugly, so self-righteously and militantly stated, their entire stance is so triumphalist, that little fellow-felling with these people is possible. They do not seem to acknowledge their human frailty or fallibility. They are not making Americans more cozily familial or deeply religious or keenly responsive to the needs and obligations of society. They led to a fence outside Laramie--and then, what...
...most beloved songs were radically reworked from their album versions at the concert, to great effect. "Ana Ng," one of their earlier rave-ups, was slowed down to an elegiac pace. "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" was almost unrecognizable on just a lone guitar with keyboards. "The Guitar" turned into a neo-hippie psychedelic experience, replete with feel-good arm-waving from the audience. "Particle Man" consisted of Linnell solo on the accordion. As an added bonus, this particular song's midsection included a hilarious interlude of "Kum-ba-ya," in a minor key, no less...