Word: rebirthing
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...this point Dr. Houston decided that I was able to undergo a psychological "death" and "rebirth." She began by asking me to find within myself the deepest possible self-symbol with which I could identify. I chose a star. My first mental image was of a very black sky with my single star in it, luminous and strong. Slowly it became smaller and smaller, dimmer and dimmer. I knew that it was not going to go out completely unless I allowed it to-and of course I didn't want it to. But Dr. Houston kept insisting, and gradually...
...Lure of Rebirth...
...Rebirth is the great Alaskan lure: the state is full of escapees from the crowds and pressures of the "Lower 48" states. The frontier spirit is implicit in dozens of fetching place names: Big Fritz, Mary's Igloo, White Eye, Tin City, Hungry, Cripple, Stampede, Eureka, Paradise and Purgatory. It is clear in the state's forgiving customs. There is no death penalty, for example, and if a first-time murderer is a man, he rarely spends more than a few years in prison. For a woman...
...corollaries. The first assumption: "No breeding ground for fantasy is so fertile as a society in a state of disintegration and flux." Postwar England was just that. The core fantasy of postwar Englishmen, as Booker gloomily sees it: a tendency to mistake disintegration and flux for the throes of rebirth...
...rebirth of moderate political activity came in the fall of 1969 with the Moratorium. The memory of Chicago had dimmed, and if the McCarthy campaign hadn't ended the war, the April upheaval at Harvard hadn't seemed to do too well at that task either. So in October and November, Harvard students flocked to demonstrations in Boston and Washington and flowed over the Greater Boston area canvassing against the war. Though the Moratorium organization- led by veterans of the McCarthy campaign-carried the fall political season, it atrophied during the winter and formally dissolved itself in April...