Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor-all were ready for orders. The night was drawing on; the lights were out. The U. S. was asking Franklin Roosevelt: Watchman, what of the night? Politics was dead as ever politics can be. A dying Congress frittered and fidgeted, eagerly awaiting decent burial and January's rebirth. The U. S. promised Franklin Roosevelt the moon and sixpence, if only...
...rebirth of the U. S. phonograph-record industry, whose sales climbed from 10,000,000 discs in 1932 to a possible 100,000,000 this year, manufacturers made one remarkable discovery: that people will buy cheap records of good music, even if the records are indifferently performed by anonymous musicians. Last week, on the heels of cheap symphonies for newspaper promotion, a new series of anonymous discs was on sale, the cheapest yet: 29? for a ten-inch disc. The records were issued by Musicraft Records, Inc. of Manhattan...
...last week German designs on France were beginning to show themselves. As Alsace and Lorraine were Germanized (see p. 30) the Berlin press devoted itself to a discussion of the "rebirth of Flemish nationality," which looked suspiciously like the first move to incorporate Northern France into the new Flemish State that Adolf Hitler planned long ago (TIME, June 3). And to Vichy, as Hitler's Ambassador, went young (37) Otto Abetz, who was kicked out of France last year after four years of trying to promote an under standing between the Nazis and French Leftist intellectuals...
...into a new social order." "Civilization" itself is "both the means by which and the ends for which any literate culture group carries on its common life." Man, he implies, can do with fewer bathtubs and blueprints. No cut-&-dried plan can save world civilization and Christianity; a religious rebirth is necessary. "Christ planted the seeds of a new humanity [which] saved Roman civilization without even intending...
Nazi Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg gave a hint of what might be expected. "Paris was the centre of mental confusion that pervaded all Europe," wrote he. "This centre of unlimited agitation against the rebirth of the European nations ... is now firmly in the hands of National Socialist Germany. This means the disinfection of a source of illness that funda mentally was directed also against the Flemish-Franconian population. . . . The fall of Paris means the possibility of moral regeneration of the French people...