Word: re-establish
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Warren has done a brilliant job of exegesis, however. One learns from him, for example, that Melville sought to re-establish his failing literary career by making himself the poet of the Civil War. He failed, of course, but failed mostly because his convictions were too strong. He was not the hyperpatriotic hooster Whitman was. His philosophy of war was this...
...city's land and water links. During the long struggle for Berlin. Brandt learned that there was no substitute for U.S. power in facing down the Russian bear. "Nowadays bridges are not built, but blown up," he said then. "It will be up to a later time to re-establish honest connections between the Eastern and Western parts of the world...
...experience to transcend life and death-seems to Lifton to be the reason for the drug culture, for revolution, for almost any of the consuming passions made have experienced since 1945. He uses the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a paradigm for man's attempt to redefine the boundaries and re-establish the concept of immortality, while defying the specter of death which the bomb has established. "The activist response to symbolic death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could in fact view the entire Cultural Revolution as a demand...
...hope left, a glimpse of the old code and toughness, of salvation lubricated in all its pistons by desperate, successful perspiration, a 'local boy who made good'. . .RICHARD NIXON steam-engining down the track, somehow un-derailed by history, cheered by those hoping he could re-establish the copybook maxims he lived...
...Nixon Administration, while nowhere near formal recognition of China, has been anxious to make small gestures toward easing tension. It has removed some trade and travel restrictions and, after a two-year suspension, quickly agreed to re-establish ambassadorial-level contact in Warsaw last February...