Word: rebirth
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...Personally, professionally and creatively, these may well be the best three years of my life," she enthuses. "I am experiencing a rebirth." Such themes -- independence, job fulfillment and spiritual renewal -- are central elements of Lear's. Divided into five sections, including "Pleasures" and "Self Center," the premiere issue features an interview with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and original fiction by Doris Lessing. There are also inspirational profiles of half a dozen exemplars of the Lear's woman, a combination of elegance, success and self-awareness. Most revolutionary are the fashion pages, which feature models ranging from...
...Nature -- the mother of all that is valuable in poetry, painting or anything else where an appeal to the soul is required." Natural vision, the sense of English terrain, exalted hopes of freedom, fear of the apocalyptic violence that lurked in human nature and, above all, a sense of rebirth in all departments of life -- it is not easy to reimagine the ferment of those times. Throughout Europe, the 1790s were a hinge on which the very idea of culture as a force in human affairs turned. A new principle entered art and poetry: renewal through radical change...
Perhaps nowadays the coming of death doesn't sound too joyous, but as the Celts believed in Nature and its cycles, death actually symbolized a chance for rebirth, Floyd says. And this seems a much better reason to party...
...closing of La Prensa last year was seen as a Sandinista rebuke to the U.S. after Congress approved $100 million in contra aid; similarly, the paper's sudden rebirth seemed to be directed at the White House. But Publisher Chamorro made it clear that she would reopen the paper on her terms, not the Sandinistas'. She said she recently received an unexpected visit from Ortega. His message: La Prensa could resume publication. Her response: "I'll never go to that censorship office again." Ortega agreed. A subsequent visit by Agrarian Reform Minister Jaime Wheelock Roman, however, indicated that the Sandinistas...
Berlin' s remarkable rebirth as a postwar center of modernism is surveyed in an ambitious show at the Museum of Modern...