Word: rebirthing
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...join the Hotel da Bahia to catch the swelling tourist trade, and the modernistic, 2,000-seat Castro Alves Theater has been rebuilt after its destruction by fire two years ago. The University of Bahia, which last week inaugurated a new, glass-walled Polytechnic School, has fired an artistic rebirth with new schools of sacred art, Afro-Asian studies and theater. Argentine Artist Carybe, who painted the mural in American Airlines' Idlewild terminal (TIME, Aug. 15), has settled in Salvador; Genaro de Carvalho, a leading maker of modern tapestries, lives there. Keeping abreast of the trend, the Catholic Church...
Nearly all the 155 adults chaperoning these proceedings believed that they saw a rebirth of Latin back home. In Charleston, S. Dak.. Latin was so unpopular six years ago that it was almost dropped; now one school has 88 Latin students. Arkansas has 69 Latin teachers, could use 32 more. In missile-minding Cheyenne, Wyo., sons of the Air Force's Atlas tenders are stoutly conjugating mittere ("to send"). But apparently, only a few youngsters mull over the ablative absolute out of sheer joy. Said Teacher Belle Gould of Henderson (Texas) High School last week: "Some...
...Next day Banker Black, smiling broadly, turned up in Princeton. Presenting Black with his second LL.D., Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen cited him as "a native Georgian still engaged in reconstruction, who emerged from the Athens of his native state to lend quietly effective assistance to the rebirth of those conditions of order and growth of which the ancient republic of Athens stands as a perpetual reminder." Two days later, Eugene Black's secret was out. There he was on the dais in Harvard Yard receiving his third LL.D. of the week from Harvard President Nathan...
...Third Act. The rebirth of Manichaeism can be seen in the theater. Modern tragedy attaches "a very dubious quality of worthlessness, threat, evil, absurdity, to the whole world of situation and existence . . . How often in our generation have we seen the tragic protagonist who is cursed by the necessity of walking, victim and innocent, through an insane world. We need only recall such plays as Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, Paul Green's Johnny Johnston, or Anderson's Key Largo and Winterset, while Sartre gave a definitive formulation, in theory and on the stage...
...simplicity. Alcestis. danced by Martha Graham, writhes on a ramp with King Admetus in a series of languorous embraces; Thanatos (Death) struggles with Alcestis in a sinuously elegant dance; the hand of Hercules, bearing a single white lily, is suddenly thrust from the center of the wheel, symbolizing the rebirth of life...