Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that warm weather combined with the neo-industrial wasteland-like apperance of Quincy and Leverett provide an atmosphere which encourages games...
...before converting to orthodox Christianity. Horrified Christian bishops would use the word Manichaean as a catch-all invective for all satanic heresies. Indeed, long after the Manichaean Church ceased to exist in the West, the Inquisition was established to put down rashes of what the Catholic Church saw as neo-Manichaeism...
...dismaying, in this public forum, to be the subject of libel by a Harvard Fellow, Lee A. Daniels (letter, March 7), and by a tenured Harvard professor, Martin Kilson (letter, March 12). Kilson calls me a "neo-White supremacist," or something close to it. Daniels calls me a "neo-Confederate" and offers an object lesson of how to deconstruct an author's text--without quoting it (see my letter of February 21)--in order to show that the author meant to say exactly the opposite of what the author actually said...
...viable redeeming process." (Kilson now distinguishes between the antebellum "institutionalizing perpetrators of slavocracy" and the rest of us perpetrators.) I have rejected being labeled such a perpetrator, and for this Kilson calls me "arrogant." I do not know what epithet I will merit for denying any "arrogance with a neo-White supremacist tilt to it," but I am unlikely to respond again, to a tenured Harvard professor or anyone else...
...message to Lee Daniels, Martin Kilson and other readers is this: If you find someone with whom you disagree on racial issues, do not automatically label that person a neo-Confederate White supremacist. Instead, ask questions and pursue meaningful dialogue on how we can live together as the one human race that we are. --Jeffrey W. Vanke Ph.D. Candidate Harvard History