Word: rebirthing
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...posters and songbooks hawked by local vendors. They are subdued crowds-"laid back" in the vernacular of the present -but once inside they unite to buffet Dylan with waves of applause after each song. Roaring pleas for encores and repeated standing ovations are standard features. Lighted matches, signifying the rebirth of Woodstock solidarity, are regularly held aloft...
Even among Americans who fully expect the worst from the fuel crisis, a stubbornly incandescent optimism has begun to shine through the gloom. People who lament the expected death of a comfortably affluent, energy-intensive way of life look forward to a rebirth of some old values. "We have become literally and figuratively fat," says William C. Westmoreland, the general who commanded U.S. forces in Viet Nam and now directs economic development for South Carolina. "Perhaps the crisis will bring us back to some of the virtues that made this country great, like thrift and the belief that waste...
...story and Merriwether from living it. They just aren't up to their fantasies. At novel's end, the reader can imagine Merriwether marrying Cynthia, buying another gabled Cambridge house, maybe even starting a second family-working, that is, toward a decent, intelligent synthesis of tradition and rebirth...
...studies his archetype and buries himself in Scottish history until his eyes throb. At the end of this surreal little journal of tribal transfer, not only Jack's heart but Jack's body-packing a volume of Robbie Burns-is en route to the Highlands, preparing for rebirth...
This narcissism often intrudes upon the poem's evolution and Eshleman's own imaginative rebirth. But finally, the birth takes form, in the shape of a butterfly...