Word: rebirth
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Spring, with its annual promise of rebirth and renewal, touched all parts of America last week except Detroit. The United Auto Workers were pressed into accepting contract concessions at General Motors, just as they had been earlier at Ford. Meanwhile, the Big Three carmakers watched as new car sales continued to lose a battle against recession, high prices, prohibitive interest rates and an invasion of imports. Automobile sales figures for the second ten-day selling period in March were grim: off 43.5% from the year-earlier pace...
...dead beeches litter the foreground, shrouded women walk among the graves, all of which suggests the hopeless mortality of man and his inevitable doom. But Ruisdael is not entirely morbid, and he inclines a faint but perceptible rainbow on the horizon--a glimmer of hope and he possibility of rebirth...
Mayor Marino promises a similar rebirth this time, aided by federal disaster relief, which was granted to Lynn last week. Says he: "We have the strength to come back. We've always had that kind of determination...
Yule Logs: Many ancient winter solstice traditions included lighted candles, bonfires and blazing logs to speed the sun on its way to yearly "rebirth." The Yule log is adopted from these pagan customs...
...date was a direct response to an array of pagan harvest festivals, and ignored the philosophical arguments offered by some Christian theologians. Most sun-worshiping early religions--including the Persian, Roman Norse, Gothic, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon--staged lavish winter solstice celebrations to mark the annual rebirth...