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Groskamp's main points: 1) High Priest Caiaphas violated several Jewish legal procedures in his conduct of the trial; 2) the Jews rejected Jesus as messiah because he was no national liberator. Israel's present rebirth without the help of a messiah proves that the messiah did not have to be a national liberator, Groskamp contends, hence Jesus' rejection on those grounds was an error...
Johnny Belinda. A heavily laureled drama about a deaf-mute's rebirth, with Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres (TIME...
...ending of enmities we celebrate. This tablet to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims a growth of enduring friendship and a rebirth of brotherhood between two great nations upon whose wisdom, valor and fortitude the future of humanity in no small degree depends...
...faces. According to native legends, they were made by a tribe called "the Long-Ears," who were eventually massacred by "the Short-Ears." According to Dr. Wolff's psychological analysis, the statues were set up to protect the souls of the dead, or to protect the volcanoes (symbolizing rebirth) from the spirit of death. The statues were carved in the crater of a volcano. Several, as if just completed, lie there still. Others lie unfinished, as if their long-eared carvers had dropped their crude tools just before being killed and eaten...
...many parts of the country, such as the Northeast, there was never much erosion, and most of this has been checked. The cotton-growing South, notorious for its stripped and deserted farms, has had a real agricultural rebirth. There are still obstinate farmers who cling to land-wrecking practices (and will surely pay for it), but the face of the South has changed. If Jeeter Lester were to shamble back to Tobacco Road, he'd never know the place...