Word: rebirthing
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...laid out in this record of sociopathology, Hasselbach's conversion seems less a moral rebirth than simply the end of an unpleasant, unpromising stage of life. Part of this can be blamed on the book's remorselessly deadpan style. Part is owing to the narrative's unnerving emotional detachment, "an awful condition I still fight against," he admits. Understandably Herr Hasselbach has much from which to detach himself...
...HARVEY To Bring You My Love (Island). This utterly graceless singer is a favorite of the rock press. But her hopelessly mannered CD--with its distorted vocals and theatrical emotionality--is for musical masochists only. In the world of experimental pop, Bjork's whimsically wonderful Post and The Rebirth of Cool: Vol. 3, featuring Portishead and Tricky, are more daring and eclectic...
...wing "religious Zionism"--the community in which I was raised and which, perhaps more than any other, has absorbed the Holocaust into its world view. Mainstream right-wing leaders must tell their followers that the Holocaust belongs to the past and offers no blueprint for our future; that the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty and military power has changed forever the ground rules of Jewish history...
...This rebirth in morality will replace the politics of this century, which are already winding down around us. The great ideological struggle between individual freedom and communism is over. Paralleling this domestically, the great social movements of the century are equally worn out: notably the great civil rights and feminist movements, which lost much of their moral force as a result of their own successes in the 1960s...
...were going to be there. That's what the whole concept is about. Black men standing up for black men. Learn to love ourself so that we can love our brother. It works back and forth." The march was virtually the culmination of Pugh's own spiritual rebirth. He admits to battling alcohol for the past 10 to 15 years, and now attends weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. He is also a born-again Christian. "Black people have always been spiritual people, and that's our backbone, our spirituality. We've got to take it into our homes, take it into...