Word: resurrect
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...special award at Hollywood's Oscar ceremonies, and the Film Society of New York City's Lincoln Center was throwing a big party for him at Philharmonic Hall. But what about the audiences? Would they respond again to the comic humanity of his Little Tramp? Would they resurrect the old resentments at the leftish leanings and marital tangles that had led Attorney General James P. McGranery in 1952 to order him detained if he tried to re-enter the U.S.? Or would they merely show indifference at the appearance of another octogenarian has-been...
...past that offered little choice as a woman and a Catholic. The possibility of realizing women's contribution to the Catholic Church from Phillips Brooks House to St. Peter's is upon us now. If the Church could only realize that God has no sex, it might well resurrect God from his proclaimed death and give life not only to God and a dying institutional Church but to a new definition of man--and woman...
...someone had been sent to resurrect Martha Graham, great founding mother of modern dance who retired from stage last year, it could not have been a more convincing messiah than Paul Sanasardo, who danced with his troupe Friday and Saturday night at the Loeb. Sanasardo, dancer-choreographer, led his group through locomotive choruses--incarnations of strength and of the Graham tradition...
...Boulanger swiftly, humanely and intelligently democratized, reorganized and re-equipped France's demoralized army. Like Dwight David Eisenhower in 1952, he became, almost overnight and with little effort on his part, the center of a whirlwind political force. "Boulangism" offered not politics but panaceas. Resurrect Gallic glory. Restore the lost provinces. Inaugurate an income tax. Give France a powerful presidency (which another general would do in 1958). Whatever it was, the general's adherents suggested, Georges would...
...voices raised against Nixon could influence a wider range of voters who stand to the right of center. The danger from the right could easily be overestimated, but Nixon for one did not ignore it. He called his older lieutenants on Capitol Hill-the "early birds" who helped him resurrect his political career for a run at the White House in 1968 -for a cocktail party last week. They included John Tower of Texas, Paul Fannin of Arizona, Robert Dole of Kansas. They met for an hour, exchanged cordial remarks and received presidential gifts. The same day, Nixon held another...