Word: rebirth
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...intended to diminish either the significance of West's and Higginbotham's appointments or the impressive pace at which the Afro-Am department has been rebuilding itself from its near collapse in 1990-1991. Having been an Afro-Am concentrator since 1991--the time of the department's rebirth--I have proudly witnessed Afro-Am's noteworthy accomplishments, especially in the growth of its faculty and course offerings...
...abilities" in deciding issues like this. It is no wonder that some people, and I would not even say the majority, have a bad image of the council. In the press, we are constantly portrayed as the flawed council of the past. This year, the council has seen a rebirth which has manifested itself in everything from packed Yale shuttles to calendar reform, from record-usage airport shuttles to packed comedy shows, and the upcoming monumental events known as David Spade, They Might Be Giants and Yardfest...
This was risky territory for a public figure: if pride is bad, then one doesn't dare seem proud of being good. Both Bill and Hillary came to Washington promising an end to politics as usual, a rebirth of responsibility, a Politics of Meaning derived from the Golden Rule. Such a specific claim to moral authority can hardly withstand charges of tax chiseling and corner cutting by Hillary and those closest to her. "Can a President credibly advance an ethic of national service," asked Clinton's nemesis on the Hill, Congressman Jim Leach, "if his own model...
...artificial circularity created by this ploy is echoed by Benitez's laborious progress through all possible rites of passage--births, weddings, funerals, feasts--in an obvious attempt to show the circularity of life from death to rebirth, tragedy to hope, etc. Another grand theme of this novel is the attempt to use the sea as a link between the little village and the world at large, using the notion of the sea as a universal constant to extrapolate this story into a commentary on human Existence. To quote the blurb on the jacket of this book, Benitez is trying...
...moving and brutal scene, Marcello goes with Emma to report on a sighting of the Madonna by two children. People traveled to the site to express their faith; one woman holds an ailing child and prays for him to be healed. While Emma prays to the Madonna for a rebirth of their love, Marcello stands at the site merely as a reporter, an observer. As night falls, rain comes down and mayhem ensues. People begin to riot, tearing branch by branch the tree where the Madonna was seen, and the little boy dies. The morning reveals the world as emptier...