Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spread across their nation this year, 300,000 German demonstrators -- nearly four times the number expected -- converged in Berlin's Lustgarten to rally for goodwill. But in full view of world media, the demonstration turned into an ugly spectacle of egg-splatting, paint-bombing counterprotest -- staged not by the neo-Nazi right, whose xenophobia prompted the march in the first place, but by some 400 left-wing anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was forced to abandon the procession shortly after beginning it. More enduring was the image of Germany's distinguished President, Richard von Weizsacker, his coat splotched by eggs, wanly...
...brought back ugly memories of an earlier Germany. Ever since last August, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned a house for asylum seekers to the applause of 2,000 bystanders, Germans have watched in growing dismay as a xenophobic fever spread across the land. Right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis and ordinary youths have committed 1,760 attacks, mainly against foreigners, this year. They have desecrated Jewish cemeteries and memorials and set fires at two former concentration camps...
...fall campaign showed, it was easier to say what Bush was against than what he was for; it was easier to say what Clinton was for than what he was against. But Clinton ultimately owed his victory not to the relative economic advantages of neo-liberal remedies over supply-side nostrums but to his vision of this nation as a community, his unflagging search for common ground. "This is America. There is no 'them,' " Clinton likes to say. "There's only us." Which means that this year's election was, among other things, a referendum on inclusion...
Last Tuesday even the most radically liberal of my friends were giddy with delight. Clinton may well represent neo-liberalism, a swing to the right. Who cares? We'll quibble over his policies later. Americans actually elected a Democrat! Even with the polls of the previous weeks it was hard to believe that a Democratic president could actually be elected. We Red Sox fans have been close before. All the distinguished commentary in the world didn't match up to watching George Bush concede and hearing the phrase "president-elect Bill Clinton." Some of my friends got drunk, others danced...
...also toss his dreadlocks, a style in which rap-blitzed kids can invest seven hours and from $324 to $1,215 at a hair salon. So kakko-ii, or cool, is it to be black that a lively business is booming in tanning salons with names like "Neo-Blackers" and mail-order skin-darkeners like "African Special" ($315 a one-month supply...