Word: rebirth
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...Virgin Spring (Svensk Filmindustri: Janus), the latest work of Ingmar Bergman (TIME, March 14), is a violently beautiful miracle play, an apocalyptic parable in which good and evil, Christian and pagan powers collaborate in a divine rebirth, the continuous nativity of love...
...country from a fascistic army regime. But the fact that a little repression is preferable to mass repression, does not make it praiseworthy. The corrosion of republican principles is always a disconcerting and menacing specter. It is to be hoped that the present dissent will give rise to a rebirth of French political life...
...program suited to the needs of a new age. We cannot find them among these who cower before the brew beating of domestic reactionaries. The time of decision is upon us. Either we stand up together, united, or we may lose the opportunity for a political, moral, and spiritual rebirth of American democracy. If this battle is lost at home, It may be lost throughout the world. Either the people and their leaders reaffirm their faith in action or they accept... tyranny.... The choice is simple, though the consequences are profound. I have made my choice and I believe...
...with no hint of classical restraint: "Whatever is classical is subtly proportioned. The proportions of a building such as the Colosseum are as subtle as those of a Greenland whale." As for the Renaissance, Rome and the Italians were impervious to it, says Menen, until the Arabians sparked "the rebirth of learning" by rediscovering mathematics and the great Greek texts. Italy's Renaissance princes kept scholars as show-off status symbols ("The scholars cost more than a dog, but not always more than a horse"). It was intellectually absurd, feels Menen, to call on Italy for a burst...
...others to help us to enlarge our understanding, to bring us new tools of thought and action, to imagine and then chart a future. We hope to contribute ideas and moral and organizational support for a debate across the country. Small as is the chance for a rebirth, great as looms the spector of destruction, we want your help in seizing the chance...