Word: neos
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...time Tchelitchew was influenced by Picasso's Rose Period, assumed the leadership of France's Neo-Romantic group. Later he struck out on his own. Tchelitchew works and talks feverishly (he is a superb conversationalist). There seems to be almost no art he cannot master. This is the source of his strength, and his weakness: for, like a jack-of-all-arts, Tchelitchew lacks the profundity that makes a painter great...
...full page editorial in this week's Saturday Evening Post in an insulting disgrace to the intelligence of the American people. Under the innocent title of "Neo-liberal Illusion: That Collectivism is Liberty," it is an insidious attack on the principles of the government thrice chosen by the American electorate. On the surface, it calls for a return to the chaotic free enterprise of the twenties between the lines it is an incipient fascism threatening to destroy those principles for which the war is being fought...
...future of creative composing could hardly have been more doubtful or insecure, than in the late thirties. The gulf between composer and listener had grown steadily wider. Under the barrage of clever and unappealing work that the atonalists, impressionists, neo-classicists, etc. turned out, the critics became evasive and began to accept each new work with equal tolerance and an equal lack of enthusiasm. That isn't to say that competent, entertaining music wasn't turned out in the twenties or thirties, but rather that the composers were mainly experimentalists, interested in playing with effects...
...young man, visualized a reunion of all Christian creeds under one church. He was so attached to the medieval way of life that nearly all his voluminous writings (My Life in Architecture, The End of Democracy) were concerned with his vision of its resurgence. His dream of the neo-medieval future included: a return of self-sufficient walled towns; a return of craftsmen's guilds; abolition of mass production; abolition of gunpowder, the printing press, the combustion engine; "return to the land"; a semi-monarchical political setup for the U.S., which would be ruled by a chief elected...
...about 500 pages on, in a long, catastrophic chapter, the whole machine flies apart, giving off humanistic, neo-christian, marxian, capitalistic and fascist sparks which generate great excitement, but not the terrifying image of man-at-the-edge-of-doom which was intended...