Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What this says about human nature is that one cannot escape his own knowledge; he cannot be baptized innocent on a moment's notice; nor may he be born again whenever difficulties make rebirth convenient. What this says about the comprehensiveness of reality is more far-reaching. "We are not prepared to attach any importance to these statements [of self-exoneration]," wrote the commissioners, adding, "and not necessarily due to the fact the this evaluation was refuted by reality"-that is, by the reality of the massacre. In other words, the commission saw an other, deeper reality...
During the recovery from the last serious postwar recession of 1973-75, economic growth eventually gave way, beginning in early 1978, to a rebirth of high inflation. Then the Federal Reserve began to tighten up on credit to cool off the economy and bring inflation to heel. Yet making money scarce automatically makes it more costly, thus pushing interest rates up and sending bond prices skidding...
...main event of the past two or three years, so far as the New York art world is concerned, has been the "rebirth" of European art-mainly young, German and Italian, expressionist in mode and flirtatiously eclectic in tone. The spectrum of achievement runs from mere operators like Salome to deeply serious artists of the caliber of Anselm Kiefer. The fact that an American audience is paying attention to European painting once more comes as a relief, but before attention gets wholly stylized as fashion, it is worth remembering that England is part of Europe and that some English painters...
...city raving against devils and homosexuals. Similar episodes followed wherever he traveled: in Boston, in London, in Salzburg, in Buenos Aires. At some point he would fall in love: with a nurse, an airline stewardess, a Latvian dancer. It hardly mattered. She would become the angel of his "rebirth...
Because we need a foothold in the Middle East, the U.S. has built up Israel. Prime Minister Begin has taken advantage of this. He plans to make Israel the ruler in the area by starting more settlements on the West Bank and occupying Lebanon. Begin has caused the rebirth of anti-Semitism all over the world...