Word: neo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intense, eager Theologian Niebuhr seems as paradoxical as his analysis of Christian doctrine. Noted as he is among churchmen for his neo-orthodox theology, he is almost as well known among intellectual liberals for his unorthodox politics. His writing is knotty, intellectual and forbidding; in speaking he has such a hard time keeping up with his racing mind that his words are accompanied by furious arm-flailings and face-twistings that sometimes make him look-though never sound -like an oldtime, fire-and-brimstone revivalist...
...religion. A high point of Niebuhr's theological recognition came in 1939, when he was invited to deliver the esteemed Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh.* The lectures, published later as the two-volume Nature & Destiny of Man (TIME, March 24,1941), form the substance of Niebuhr's neo-orthodox theology...
...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
Died. Lyle Saxon, 54, local-colorist of the Louisiana bayou country; after long illness; in New Orleans. From oft-told tales about the quadroons and mulattoes who inhabited the shifting Mississippi delta, he wove novels of romance and violence (Children of Strangers, Lafitte, the Pirate] and neo-Gothic horror stories of New Orleans-below-the-belt (Gumbo...
Instead, he was returned to Washington, subsequently sent to India and China. India, which he had never visited before, inspires some of the most nearly apoplectic, most polysyllabic (and shrewd) passages in the book. The "impermeable autochthonic self-responsive misery" of the Indians depressed him almost as much as "neo-Fascism" had in Italy, though for entirely different reasons. Sheean regards Britain's stay in India as a "silly impertinence," but says that India's major problem is the Indians themselves...