Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Open of Boston's New Urban League argues that Jewish leaders have exaggerated anti-Semitism as a means of re-identifying Jewishness. "I charge that Jewish religious and lay leaders have in fact fanned the fires of dormant anti-Semitism in this country as a means of establishing a rebirth of Jewish awareness, identity and unity...
Every new President basks in a rebirth of American hope, a resurgent faith that new men, with new perceptions, can summon the nation to greatness. In one sense, that hope is well justified in the case of Richard Nixon: he comes to power when the war in Viet Nam may finally be ending; today, Americans are generally agreed that the nation's resources must, as far as possible, be reallocated toward resolving its domestic ills...
...CENTRAL dogma of this view is that the rebirth of the Left in this country is essentially a product of cultural decay with no real relation to political or social reality. Certainly, disaffection with the cultural debris of our society is one important source of radicalism--the significance of that fact has been a matter of intensive debate, within the Left, and particularly within SDS, for some time now. But in the hands of Irving Howe--and the hundreds of magazine writers who came after him--such a fact is used to prove that a young radical has no concern...
...horror of man's uncomplaining acceptance of his own degeneration? Because many who are supposed to be mad here, as opposed to the ones who are drunks, are simply people who perhaps once saw, however confusedly, the necessity for change in themselves, for rebirth that's the word...
Practical Step. The unrest stemmed in large part from Nasser's failure to deliver on his pledge of national rebirth, proclaimed just after similar rioting in February. His new National Congress has done little but issue loud exhortations for Egypt to mobilize, which is what it was set up to plan, and a Central Committee of 150 men has likewise spent most of its time in talk...