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...redemptive act of dying on the Cross. Because of man's unworthiness, good works could not affect God's favoring glance; they were simply "the fruits of faith" −the response of man to divine favor. "Here I realized," Luther wrote later, "that I had been truly reborn, and had entered Paradise itself through open doors...
...propagandist, really--calling for the revival of the classical literary norms and the scuttling of romanticism: only later did he embark on a career of agitation for a social and political order which, in the harmony of its parts, restraint of form and moral decorousness, would nicely complement the reborn ancien regime litteraire...
...Brooklyn Eagle, reborn in October after a fatal Guild strike in 1955, jumped from 50,000 circulation to 325,000. The National Enquirer, a New York-based tabloid devoted to gossip and cheesecake, boosted its New York press run of 300,000 by one million. On commuter coach seats, the railroads laid daily news bulletins; the New Haven's throwaway prayerfully asked its passengers not to drop them on the floor. With what it called "characteristic spontaneity," Harvard's student newspaper, the Crimson, inundated Manhattan with 10,000 free copies of a "New York Edition"-2,000 more...
...readiness, they are pictorially and organically in harmony with their elemental surroundings. Among the sociological curios filmed by the expedition, a mock birth ritual is the most dramatic, with two peacemaking clans rhythmically grunting out the labor pains over two couples covered with sago leaves who are each being "reborn" into the other's neighboring tribe as a peace pledge...
...said. "It's now reached its decisive stage. Believe me, it is no honor to be King of a poor and hungry people." As he handed out land deeds, the Shah asked one farmer if he was happy. "No. I'm not happy," he replied. "I am reborn...