Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high pressure" psychology. The children play at national planning. Production is as much of a god to the communist zealots as over-production is a spectre to the American capitalist. The extremes and contrasts that are always a part of Russia extend even more sharply as the country seeks rebirth and who find workers whose absorbing life interest is simply to exceed the production quota, who write down their thoughts in note-books and yet who cat "cabbage soup from rusty cans...
News from Chicago indicates a rebirth of that soft and mealy-mouthed generosity which characterizes the American attitude toward crime. Perhaps the brevity of American indignation, the sole reason for every crime wave, results from a sympathetic feeling for the underdog, even after the public has been severely bitten by it, or perhaps this indifference stems from mere lack of intestinal fortitude...
...article by Mr. H. M. Wade on American literature deserves consideration. It is Mr. Wade's contention that there is or that there is about to be a literary renaissance in this country or, as Mr. Wade further qualifies, "a flowering of the American tradition and a rebirth in America of European tradition from which this land stems." Before taking up the flowering, he indicates the tradition which is to flower. Then, after a survey of writers since 1900, Mr. Wade concludes in the second place that there is about to be a renaissance of our civilization. "The facts constitute...
...Herr Hitler is said to favor this plan. Last week Dr. Goebbels compelled every German paper to publish accounts of a supposedly idyllic meeting between Chancellor and President. Old Paul declared that Gentle Adolf "within a short period" has put the German people through a "complete mental and spiritual rebirth" and given them "new zest...
...Athens. It is nearly two years since the topless towers of Insulldom toppled. But reverberations of the mightiest crash of the Depression still rumble ominously back & forth across the western world. Last week Insull echoes were again rolling heavily around Chicago: ¶ To be on hand for the rebirth of the Insullated Chicago Civic Opera Company this week (see p. 18), Rosa Raisa and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, required cash advances for traveling expenses. Just before the opening Soprano Raisa told" the story of how she and her husband lost their entire fortune through Samuel In-sull's investment...