Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priest was proved right is the climax to Brideshead Revisited, in which the ageless theme of rebirth through death is used melodramatically by Author Waugh to resurrect the remnants of the tottering family and leave Artist Ryder sadder, wiser, still unmarried to Lady Julia-and a religious man. Soon after, Ryder, now a soldier, watched troops being billeted at Brideshead...
Iran's self-proclaimed autonomous province, Azerbaijan, was quiet again after its political rebirth. But its mother state was still suffering from acute postnatal pains...
...purposeful men, shrewd men, perhaps ruthless men, and always confused men. There would be Babels of planning and organization, pyramids of policy. But these would come to no more than all those that had gone before unless, as on this day of Nativity, 1945, man felt within himself a rebirth of what some have called "the Inner Light," others "the Christ within." They would fail like all the rest unless man achieved the ultimate humility and the power implied in one of the Bible's most peremptory commandments...
...proud to make a minor contribution to the re-establishment of peace in this great country. We are conscious of being present at the rebirth of a nation. . . . We hope that our present congenial relations are the forerunner of long years of mutually beneficial cooperation between our two countries...
...starving tenants for stealing potatoes, and show how his estate has now been divided up into homes for all. During the rest of its 19-hours-a-day on the air, the station has stressed how the Russians pioneered in bringing food into Berlin, introduced racial tolerance, encouraged the rebirth of non-Nazi political parties...