Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Claiming that if everyone in the United States Army was like the squad in James Jones' "From Here to Eternity," we would have lost the war, Lewisohn called for a rebirth of "the significant Personality" in literature...
Some Paris newspapers called his speech a turning point in French foreign policy. But support for ratification came from such veteran statesmen as René Pleven and Paul Reynaud, who argued that the plan to bring West German troops into a European army is specifically designed to prevent the rebirth of the Wehrmacht. Premier Antoine Pinay, who needs the support of the Radical Socialists (75 seats) to stay in power, was quoted as saying: "I am for a European army...
...less than 30 minutes on the air last week a pair of U.S. newspaper correspondents saved Germany and the world from a dangerous rebirth of Naziism. Just as effortlessly, the same newshawks have triumphed over Red conspirators, black marketeers, diamond smugglers, political assassins and other European evildoers. Their consistent and clear-cut victories take place on Foreign Intrigue (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., NBC), a TV adventure series that is chiefly notable because 1) it is filmed in Sweden, 2) by Philadelphia-born Sheldon Reynolds, 27, who two years ago knew almost nothing about either films or television...
...usual slick style, Philip Wylie wrote the love story of a Russian girl, who had been sterilized by a bomb burst, and a U.S. major. Arthur Koestler, Marguerite Higgins, Walter Reuther, Walter Winchell and the Christian Science Monitor's Erwin Canham were on hand to report on the rebirth in conquered Moscow of such things as religion, unions, a free press, the beginnings of democratic government. As a pious afterthought Collier's said editorially: "We do not think that war is inevitable." The special issue was "an appeal to the reason of Joseph Stalin and the men around...
...pacifist slogans. Then the Bolsheviks went on, as Lenin knew they would, to make a bloody civil war. Since then, the dove has been more or less important in Communist mythology. To understand what happened to the dove at San Francisco, it is necessary to understand the recent rebirth of Communism's strange bird...