Word: rebirthing
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...been performing some of her works on its current American tour-"beautifully." Then back to her own plans: "I'm pulling back my dancers from all over the world so we can get the company together again for a season in early spring. I'm going through rebirth...
PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE PARLOR. Rebirth of Soviet Jewry, a Sabbath Table Talk by Chaim Spivakovsky...
None deserves a gold medal for perception (though the baron might merit a silver for idealism). Since their rebirth at Athens in 1896, the Games have seldom been remarkable for radiant union, and the XX Olympiad, which begins on Aug. 26, is not likely to prove an exception. Bickering among officials has almost become a separate Olympic event. Squabbles among competitors are less common, though sometimes more dramatic. At Melbourne in 1956, for example, a water-polo match turned into a miniature of the Hungarian Revolution. The Hungarian team beat the Russians in a brutal contest for the gold medal...
...daring mocks our caution, their sense of self shames our self-effacement. Swept on by his own rhetoric, Harrington concludes with a bizarre version of the New Mysticism, in which the psychopath and the good soldier both partake in a hallucinogenic communion at what he calls the Church of Rebirth. After all those exhortations, however, one finds oneself agreeing with the friend who discovered Harring ton in the darkened living room in San Francisco. " 'For Christ's sake!' he shouted, yanking open the blinds. 'How can you live that...
...description of 11th century Christendom: "Purified to small purpose at great cost"). Part of it, too, is the tantalizing, gradually unfolded history of marooned St. Cyprian: the early, apocalyptic piety, the later license, the hallucinogenic crops, the bloody rage. And finally the second cataclysm: the shock of realization and rebirth when Father Albrecht arrives with the news that the outside world exists after...