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I have a vague memory of a question regarding the origin of the term 
"neoclassical synthesis" or "Keynesian neoclassical synthesis".  I may have 
found the answer.  In Economic Theory and Wages (in The Impact of the 
Union, 
McCord Wright, ed) Paul Samuelson (1951, 336) states that "a compromise 
doctrine has emerged from the combination of classical, neoclassical, 
Keynesian and neo Keynesian analysis.  A legitimate and convienient name 
for 
this common core is, I suggest, 'neoclasical'". 
 
Robert Leeson 
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