Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Middle Ages and Mexico's "Little Dark One," the Virgin of Guadalupe, with Mary's affinity for the humble. She can muster historical support for the Mary described by spiritual adventurer China Galland--"a protectress who doesn't allow her children to be hunted, tortured, murdered and devoured"--and neo-Jungian Clarissa Pinkola Estes' assertion that "Mary would be a teenage-girl-gang leader" today. If this seems a bit all embracing (since the hunters, torturers and murderers no doubt have their own Marys), that too is typical. Mary, Cunneen writes, transcends cultural and religious bounds and speaks...
...this experience hardly makes me a neo-Puritan supporter of the continuing war against marijuana users. It's despicable to criminalize and imprison thousands for marijuana possession, while the liquor and tobacco lobbies are destroying so many lives with advertising and campaign contributions. I told my kids that marijuana in moderation for medicinal, ceremonial and recreational use is defensible, especially in comparison with alcohol and tobacco. I also warned them that marijuana has never improved anyone's ability to do homework or hit a curve ball. It infuriates me that my kids, like millions of their generation, are defined...
...There's a growing trend of neo-conservative Asians," Cheng says. "It's about members of a minority coming out of a history of exclusion and seeing they are being accepted and thinking they can buy into that."CrimsonGrigory TovbisAffirmative action breeds a sense of self-doubt. You have to wonder, am I where I am because of who I am or what I look like?' --Yvonne...
...Vonnegut worried brilliantly in Mother Night. Words, after all, have real consequences. The value of espionage, on the other hand, is never easily provable--especially in Campbell's case. When, years after the war, it is discovered that he is still alive, the Soviets, the Israelis and the American neo-Nazis all seek to use him for their own purposes, and there is no one to corroborate his story...
...Neo-conservatives like James Q. Wilson, Samuel Beer, Daniel P. Moynihan and Henry Kissinger '50 have also moved on. Wilson took a teaching position at UCLA, Moynihan was elected to the United States Senate and Kissinger served as secretary of state for former president Richard M. Nixon...