Word: rebirth
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...Germans it was something of a portent. "The plot of every one of his novels," said a critic, "concerns an organism whose vitality is threatened; one can never be sure whether the crisis will end ineluctably in death or whether it is not instead the critical point in a rebirth." Because the vitality of that old organism Europe appeared to be ebbing towards destruction, Mann's work seemed prophetic; Mann, transplanted to America, seemed a waiting symbol of Europe's rebirth...
Russia, Dulles said, was faced with bankruptcy of its old policy. Cold war and hot threats had failed to cow Western Europe or to halt the rebirth of a rearmed, democratic Germany. The Soviets were overcommitted: with less than a third of U.S. industrial capacity, they were at tempting to keep up an atomic armament race with the U.S. An enormous part of Russia's armaments was disappearing in the maw of the Red Chinese dragon, and the Soviet people, under cruel economic burdens, were restive. It appeared the Soviet leaders wanted a "respite...
...ideal new man a reflection of his inner-directed person. But where earnest Author Riesman deals at length with economic and political behavior, romantic Author Whitman deals, no less earnestly, with man's inner life, the role of the mystic and of the church, the possibility of rebirth or of what Jung calls individuation. Riesman writes as a social scientist, describing and classifying. Author Whitman comes close to being a preacher. She aims to persuade, and she often does. Many of her readers will reach the happy conclusion that the future of the race lies with all the little...
...united in the Yard, has a strong, if often dormant, class spirit, and frequently feels that it isn't being adequately covered in the CRIMSON. This attitude, coupled with the fact that the class of 1954 as freshmen included 189 former high school editors, led to the Yardling's rebirth. The paper's renaissance was "inherent in the situation," according to Dean of Students Delmar Leighton '19, then Dean of Freshman. on May 12, and the editorial, explaining that exams caused the paper's demise, said wistfully, "Perhaps we have started a tradition . . ." Indeed they had, although the next issue...
...Such a rebirth can reach only its earlier stages this spring. Necessarily, full blossoming of the dramatic arts must wait several years for the building of the new theatre, for which a committee of prominent alumni is now soliciting funds. Meanwhile, however, a generation of students is going through the College with almost no official instruction in dramatic arts. As yesterday's announcement indicates, the University can take immediate steps to strengthen College drama provisionally and at the same time to pave the way for the new theatre...