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...begins as a squadron of British planes roar in so low and so fast over Occupied France that the land beneath them flows and tilts like a stormy sea. This mood of hazardous intimacy is the fierce dramatic pacesetter for a picture of a totally defeated nation coming to rebirth by the simple act of refusing to concede itself licked...
...person who became known as Buddha devoted his life to seeking a way out of the unending cycles of rebirth to which the Hindu and his universe, through Siva, were bound. Through asceticism and contemplation Buddha found his goal of complete and final extinction (nirvana). His perfect enlightenment (bodhi) in this matter was what caused him to smile, and all his images to smile. On 57th Street in Manhattan last week they still smiled...
There is another sort of birth, from year to year: the rebirth of a great name, or the slow filtering of a great mind into a new age or country. The year's best-publicized resurgence was that of John Donne, thanks to Ernest Hemingway's last novel. Less flukily the Oxford and Princeton presses between them brought out five volumes by Soren Kierkegaard, perhaps the least-known great mind of the 19th Century. The work of such minds enters the world silently, late, without ingratiation; but it helps restore the very values upon which human life...
...always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth of a new century would be a cleansing and a rebirth...
Apparently overlooked in the wave of jazz and swing that has swept the country in recent years, the old Virginia Reel, polka, and Schotish of yesteryear are enjoying a rebirth of popularity, appearing with increasing prominence at parties and among the colleges of the country...