Word: neos
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...split in two. The Monarchists, basically a right-wing collection financed by Italy's well-to-do, favored a return to monarchy under a constitution, yet did not seem really to think it feasible professed support of parliamentary democracy yet often voted with Communists, fellow travelers and neo-Fascists against Italy's hard-pressed Christian Democratic center. Contradictions of purpose and tactics hurried the split, but it .was specifically caused by the rivalry of two strong figures...
...after Corot's return to Paris, lesser men kept urging him to paint big, neo-classical scenes stuffed with the literary allusions then popular. Amiability was perhaps Corot's greatest fault as an artist. In time he gave in, gained critical success with such pictures, then proceeded to make a popular and financial success with watered-down studio versions of his landscapes. From his late 40s until his death at 78, Corot painted thousands of such cobwebby canvases to fill a vast and continuing demand. Only now and then, as with the Blonde Gasconne, did he rise again...
...bright needles and a few dull questions. In the end. the producers (apparently not sure that murder all by itself is bad enough to make a man a villain) arrange that Sanders shall also be a megalomaniac, an ex-Nazi and the author of a neo-Nietzschean book...
Tillich has pioneered in studies on the relationship of theology to philosophy, history, and psychology. Theologically, he has drawn on both Calvinist and Lutheran traditions, and he stands, in the contemporary Protestant theological circle, between the neo-orthodox and the liberal...
...began discreetly as a combined effort of Italy's De Sica-it was his first English-language movie-and Hollywood's David O. {Gone With the Wind} Selznick, husband of Jennifer Jones. Selznick supplied the stars, script and money, De Sica the unblinking eye for "neo-realism." But the effort never moved very smoothly: De Sica, who likes to use nonprofessionals in his films and speaks poor English, frequently found his American stars hard to deal with. The original Italian script was worked over successively by American Authors Carson McCullers, Paul Gallico and Truman Capote...