Word: rebirths
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...stemmed straight back to the spirit of resurgence in Congress, the determination of many a Senator to show the President that Congress, not he, is boss. Among the older Senators it stemmed back also to the great fight on Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, the post-War rebirth of Isolation and mandatory neutrality laws...
...every June, Vag has been joyously happy. The rebirth of nature's earth has been his rebirth too. Cupid, Puck, and Duty have fought for his attention, and he has reveled in their very battling. Once, so long ago, when he was a mewling prepster. June meant the end of another school year was near. It meant only that summer--an idyllic period of freedom and fun--approached. It meant a return to those hazy blue mountains which Vag loves...
...best book because it is his clearest and most interesting, The Bridegroom Cometh "dramatizes [says Frank] in flesh and blood the loss of the religious instinct in modern American life, and both the need and the promise of its triumphant rebirth." It is really a sequel: all of Frank's writing is focused on the search for a new religion...
...Bridegroom Cometh better dramatizes Mary's loss of faith than her rebirth. But it is provocative testimony to Author Frank's thesis that U. S. life is deeply grained with religious tradition...
...musicology must go a great deal of the credit for this revival of works of undeservedly neglected composers. To it also must go much credit for the rebirth of great bodies of musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means...