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...there are the Neo-Realists. They are unlikely to be as great an influence on the novel as the Symbolists were on poetry, but for more than five years they have been stirring excitement, adulation, outrage and despair. Admirers hail them as bold innovators who are breaking ground for the fiction of the future. Alarmists warn that if Gallic logic is pursued to its usual extreme, Neo-Realists' views and practices may lead the novel to wither away entirely...
There is an element of timeliness in their revolution. Rarely before has a collection of serious writers experimented with the novel at precisely the time when the novel stands in need of revision. The Neo-Realists are in full rebellion against the weighty social comment, the accumulated enunciations of "eternal verities," the resounding statements about love and death and human commitment which, over recent decades, have been used to make the traditional novel seem more meaningful...
...Rome, a fleet of 200 sound trucks blared the strident propaganda of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.), and in the air relays of planes zoomed over rooftops, trailing the names of M.S.I, candidates. The heirs of Mussolini reportedly spent more than $3,000,000 during the four-week campaign, but when the votes were counted it was clear that the Missini (the nickname derived from the party initials) had misspent their lire. The Fascist share of the total vote rose slightly from 9.7% in 1960 to 10%; a mere 19,000 new M.S.I, voters (new total...
Nkrumah's conference of "freedom fighters" turned out to be another dreary, anachronistic round of anticolonial, anti-imperialist speeches preaching "freedom" on a continent already largely free from colonial rule. The Common Market of Europe was Nkrumah's new cuss word ("neo-colonialism"), and NATO was also dragged in for critical comment. Although his own country is impoverished, the dictator promised lots of money to potential allies. Nkrumah's party paper dubbed him Africahene (King of Africa) to top all his other self-bestowed titles, including Osagyefo (Redeemer) and Asomdwehene (King of Peace...
...gambols through the tango, the twist, and an agitated bit of neo-'20s dance nonsense called "the kangaroo." After his appearance in this wan swan song of the Broadway season, Cesare Siepi can always go back to the Met; Karnilova will dance again. In Rome's palmier days, the rest of Bravo Giovanni would have been thrown to the lions...