Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement and lyricism. To date, Court is the most accomplished announcement of that rebirth. Memo to June Taylor: Move over...
Seeking to stimulate a rebirth of environmental activism at Harvard, a student ecological action group is sponsoring a celebration of Earth Day today in the Sever quad from...
...this exuberant rebirth is, in a strict sense, illegal. Not a single nation in the world recognizes the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem. And when the Knesset voted in 1980 that a reunited Jerusalem was, in the words of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, "the eternal capital of our country, our people, our faith, our civilization," the United Nations promptly voted that it was no such thing. Hence the departure, under strong Arab pressure, of the Dutch diplomats...
Spring, with its annual promise of rebirth and renewal, touched all parts of America last week except Detroit. The United Auto Workers were pressed into accepting contract concessions at General Motors, just as they had been earlier at Ford. Meanwhile, the Big Three carmakers watched as new car sales continued to lose a battle against recession, high prices, prohibitive interest rates and an invasion of imports. Automobile sales figures for the second ten-day selling period in March were grim: off 43.5% from the year-earlier pace...
...dead beeches litter the foreground, shrouded women walk among the graves, all of which suggests the hopeless mortality of man and his inevitable doom. But Ruisdael is not entirely morbid, and he inclines a faint but perceptible rainbow on the horizon--a glimmer of hope and he possibility of rebirth...