Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Redemption is marred by the Dostoevskian notion that a true spiritual rebirth can come only after a great sin; consequently, its characters hazily confuse forgiveness of Kavanagh's crime with left-handed apologies for it. When a policeman speaks with horror of Kavanagh's "cold knife," Father Mellowes blandly replies that the knife "was not so cold as your justice"-which seems to suggest that, for Stuart, morality can be measured with a thermometer. Like his character, Ezra, Stuart wants brotherhood but in a typically Irish mood has no good word for humility. If men can find grace...
...crowded with new cars. The Quezon and Jones bridges across the Pasig River are handsomely restored; the Santa Cruz and Ayala bridges will be restored by next year. Manila's shops bulge with almost every American product from tomato juice to tractors. But despite all signs of rebirth, the Philippines are in trouble...
...prepared to admit that a rebirth of nationalism had brought about the re-emergence of some dangerous elements. But "if there were no rebirth of pride in Germany it would indeed mark a spirit of hopeless futility" that would discourage any hope for a German birth of democracy...
...ambiguity of his story. His writing is simple and incisive, he has carefully drawn the rusting weapons carriers and fading fatigue uniforms of the demoralized armies. Yet the realism of this story is underlaid with symbolism; the symbolism of the sergeant's night journey to his childhood and attempted rebirth. Guerard tends to overwork a few images: the honey knob of a girl's shoulder and the hovering of aircraft above the battlefield, for instance. He relies upon the disturbing device of a narrator who narrates only at intervals, sees things far differently from the sergeant, and points...
Although there may be an extreme rightist movement, it will not be based on the old Nazi ideology, Clay said. The Nazi leaders have been thoroughly discredited and there is no need to worry about the rebirth of their party...