Word: neos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush's message about humility served multiple purposes. It was not just a signal to foreign policy hawks and neo-isolationists that the new Republican president would be less inclined to dispatch envoys or peace-keepers to troubled regions of the world. Humility was a code word designed to reassure voters who feared that Dubya might be too smart-alecky and cocksure to be trusted in the Oval Office. On the campaign trail, the Texas governor tended to exude the opposite of humility. Bush was playing against type, countering the perception of his callowness with a pledge to be earnest...
...which doctrines diverge: things like the number and nature of deity, why is there terrible wrongdoing in the world, should men and women have prescribed roles? When I finish, I get a list telling me that my answers suggest I'm best suited to be a Universal Unitarian, a Neo-Paganist (an animist, essentially) or a Liberal Quaker. (It also seems I'm more in tune with Sikhs than Seventh Day Adventists...
...occasions and sometimes in private, too, members of the Meiji Elite discarded their traditional dress, once modeled after the undergarments of Tang dynasty Chinese robes, and began to wear European army uniforms, morning coats, ball gowns and top hats. Courtiers and other grandees adopted European-style aristocratic titles. Rococo, neo-Renaissance and neoclassicist buildings were erected. Concerts of European classical music were performed. A Prussian-style constitution was promulgated, a British-style navy built, a French-style bureaucracy developed and the Emperor, whose forebears had dedicated themselves to culture and ritual in the palatial seclusion of Kyoto, was boosted...
...Wiggins, Miss., parishioners enter the chapel by passing through a room lined with framed photographs of Generals Lee, Forrest and Jackson. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pastor John Thomas Cripps, a member of a white supremacist organization called the League of the South, is one of 30 neo-Confederate ministers preaching a mix of white Christian dominance and succession...
South Carolina The man behind a controversial neo-Confederate magazine...