Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guest; more of the Last Judgment and less of the Golden Rule. It will not only have a Living God, but a Live Devil. Its Heaven will have a Hell for its alternative. Its objective-so far as I'm concerned-will not be my cultivation, but my rebirth. I might fail that kind of church. But that kind of church could not fail...
...choice of tea cakes, the dropping of a cup, becomes symbolic), readers may extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...
Hodge told his men: "We are midwives at the rebirth of a nation." He applied the forceps with characteristic vigor. At Kwangju, Hodge, with his old cavalryman's gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when...
...immediately evident. The U.N. will remain, but instead of a community of nations it will remain as a trading place for diplomatic hucksters. The peace will remain for one decade or two or three because war cannot be fought by impoverished nations. But unless there is a rebirth of that desire for genuine world government that was born in the war and has died with the peace then America has chosen the safe road to eventual...
...natural instinct for cooperation must have a universal rebirth, she remarked. "Money is now the God of the masses as well as the classes," she went on, saying that men are divided into organizations of labor and management "solely by leaders who wish to use them...