Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted and understood and appreciated. The fabulous courtesy of the East is not a ritual, but simply oil to grease the machinery of human relationships. The people...
Scion of the Ages. Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo's Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901. Japan itself was suffering a rebirth. It was 48 years since U.S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry had opened the ports of the Land of the Gods to U.S. trade and western ideas. Four years hence Japan would defeat vast, backward Russia and emerge as a foremost Pacific power...
Commented Colonel William J. Bingham, AUS, '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics, in a special cable from Honolulu, "This marks the rebirth of formal athletics at Harvard. I hope...
Layman Rockefeller had warned the churches that their survival hinged on their joining in a "great rebirth," had urged them to "pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. ... A life, not a creed, would be the test." He pleaded for "a more spiritual and less formal religion . . . not for modification of form but for its subordination to the spirit...
...Christian by conviction: John D. Rockefeller Jr. He has given much of his life and fortune to the cause of church unity. Last week, as he often had before, John D. Jr. hit hard at disunity, warned that the churches' survival hinged on their joining in a great rebirth as the "Church of the Living God." Said he at a dinner of New York's Protestant Council...