Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Such a rebirth has brought the Concentration Dinners to life in some of the Houses in recent years. For four years Leverett House has been gathering one or another group of its twenty-three fields of concentration together once a week for sherry, dinner, and a bull-session with some outstanding men in the field. The turn out has always been good enough to warrant four or five meetings of each field a term...
...Palestine situation, the British are pictured as fatuous sports, the Arabs as a colorfully comic tribe of three-occasionally seen in the background taking a hefty spit at a Jewish armored truck-and the Jews as total heroes. The worldwide political snafu that preceded Israel's rebirth is boiled down to the smuggling of Jewish D.P.s through British patrols, a one-sided desert scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against one slow-thinking cop. The same Englishmen who watched Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart win World War II take a brass-knuckle beating in Sword...
Niebuhr finds still further possibility of Christian redemption on an international level. The most powerful groups within nations and the most powerful nations in the world can, he thinks, behave enough like individuals to earn themselves rebirth. This can happen when their power and pride are challenged by new social forces. Then they "face the alternative of dying because they try too desperately to live, or of achieving new life by dying to self." When the latter occurs, he claims, it establishes "the validity of the Christian doctrine of life through death for the collective, as well...
Groskamp's main points: 1) High Priest Caiaphas violated several Jewish legal procedures in his conduct of the trial; 2) the Jews rejected Jesus as messiah because he was no national liberator. Israel's present rebirth without the help of a messiah proves that the messiah did not have to be a national liberator, Groskamp contends, hence Jesus' rejection on those grounds was an error...
Johnny Belinda. A heavily laureled drama about a deaf-mute's rebirth, with Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres (TIME...