Word: novus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smiling, relaxed, he rambled on, hopelessly out of touch with any acceptable reality: "...As T.S. Eliot once told me,...hmn, ha ha,...and thus, you know, a novus homo, ho ho, ...and therefore, Robert Browning stands as...hee hee, `...the boy stood on the burning deck,' ...Michael Blumenthal 'hath perced to the roote,' ...on the other hand...I'm Spartacus...
...have trouble making himself heard, and he blamed the press for concentrating on the Carter-Kennedy struggle. As Brown straggled along he began paying more and more heed to an assortment of eccentrics who had attached themselves to the fringes of his entourage. Among them were members of Novus, an amorphous organization that takes its name from a Latin motto on the Great Seal of the U.S., Novus ordo seclorum, meaning New Order of the Ages. According to Bill Whitson, 53, one of the group's founders, who is currently on a leave of absence from his post...