Word: neos
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...asserting one’s identity, and from there it ran the whole gamut from rambling personal stories, an a cappella song, some high-school self-revelation and some quite phenomenally good spoken word style poetry. High-paced, sometimes a little too much, the poetry could make reference to Neo of The Matrix and Jesus in the same breath. One freshman stepped up to the mic and echoed what a lot of people seemed to be feeling, “I just started school, and there’s so much shit going on.” Sharing...
Ingraham and her vociferous crowd eviscerated the two neo-hippies and they left having accomplished little other than too further entrench thousands of Ingraham’s right-wing listeners in their hatred of egg-sucking anti-American liberals. As I lay in bed later that night I had two thoughts: one was that I was grateful to have been bumped by Kerry and Bush, for fear that making an argument for peace after those two would have meant an almost certain stoning during a commercial break. The other was a slow awakening as to why so many people...
...offers a stunning, expansive view. Best to Avoid: Taxi drivers who don?t smile, refuse to issue receipts and negotiate fares upon entry. Insist that the meter runs on single tariff while in Athens. Best Come-back: Benaki Museum. If you have time for only one museum stop, this Neo-classical landmark is the place to go. Open again after a 12-year renovation, the museum has a priceless collection spanning Hellenism?s 5,000 years. 1 Koumbari Street. Tel: +30 1 36 71 000. Admission: $4.50. wrought-iron balconies, and you'll find craftsmen like Constantine Petropoulos, 88, repairing...
Current polls leave no doubt that the peacenik naysayers now running to the flowers are but a tiny minority of our people. Yet they scream in a voice that is loud and familiar. The neo-hippies who jeer from their idle repose in academia’s ideological daisy-fields are relics of the slovenly anarchism that was born of our parents’ generation, reached its apogee at the height of the Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult...
...racist caricatures of the Japanese as screeching simians. Whatever bigotry rises among the public, tolerance seems cemented in the culture of official and corporate America. Even before the attacks, Paramount changed a terrorist group in an adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears from Arabs to neo-Nazis, says chairman Sherry Lansing, and she doubts she would green-light a movie with an Arab baddie today. "You [hear about] these Afghan or Arab children in high schools who are getting picked on," she says. "You don't want this to be a country where we do this...