Word: rebirthing
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...Georges Boulanger, who failed to seize power only through a crucial loss of nerve in 1889. The first elected President of the Third Republic was a soldier, Marshal MacMahon; the last act of the Third Republic was to surrender its powers to another soldier, Marshal Pétain. The rebirth of France began when General de Gaulle disobeyed the Pétain government, which had made peace with the Nazis, and launched the Free French movement...
...Council's deliberations, this week, will be reports positioning the organization in three major areas of thought and action. At week's end, the general trends were clear. The section on Unity seemed to agree that church union will eventually entail nothing less than the death and rebirth of many of the various churches' forms and practices. The section on Witness felt that evangelism should begin to stress dialogue techniques in spreading the Gospel (even "dialogue sermons'') rather than straight preaching. This report also pointed out that churches will have to count on laymen...
...time changes even the basis of alliance, and even among so-called status quo powers. The last decade has seen the economic rebirth of Europe and the progressive movement of European states off of the American dole and into the Common Market. The last decade has seen, in short, the weakening of one pillar of the trans-Atlantic structure: American economic hegemony...
Federal aid, according to Alfred and Miss Hellman, would lead to a general reduction of ticket prices, a rebirth of community theater, and a saner attitude toward financial success. Kerr, however, cited an experiment in which a New York producer raised the price of back-row seats and immediately found them in demand. "We can always sell the orchestra," he shrugged, "it's more than a question of price...
...time is one of ferment and potential rebirth. This is so precisely because it is a time full of chaos ... It was only natural that Sigmund Freud should at the beginning of his career have thought of the irrational aspects of-the human personality as chaotic and potentially dangerous powers ... It did not occur to him that chaos in itself may represent a very positive and fertile current of life. For the people of the Old Testament, especially in the creation story, the question was not: 'Why is there chaos?' but rather: 'Why is there order?' For them, order...