Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boyhood baseball hobby died out, but Shapiro, like many others, rediscovered it in adulthood. The original attraction in his case was the Baltimore Orioles of the late 1970s. Now Shapiro is more Bird-brained than ever, since Baltimore has erected the neo-nostalgic Camden Yards field, which he saluted in his last baseball opus for TIME...
...Neo-Nazi spray paintings weren't the only sign of trouble in Spain, either. Just as the HIV test looks for antibodies to the AIDS virus rather than for the virus itself. I detected a subterranean ideological war in some Spaniards' perception that rightist musings must be responded to in kind...
...they are abustle with larger, if entirely inchoate, ambitions. They have invested John with a real problem -- alcoholism -- and they have plunked the Learys down on a block that is a sort of dumping ground for the damned of the lower middle class. Among their new neighbors are a neo-Nazi, a drug-addict mom who dies of an overdose and someone who keeps a pack of killer Dobermans in the yard next door. For a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction, this environment seems bound to push them over the edge. Sure enough, Dylan, the younger...
...There's always some neo-conservative revisionist running around trying to undermine the presence of people of color," Jones said...
Atrocities dominate the larger scale of events in the book. The Nazis originally trained the dogs that attacked June; their presence evokes all the horrors of World War II. Neo-fascist skinheads savage Bernard when he visits Berlin to see the Wall come down. The novel addresses the depths of hatred and spite to which the world often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming...