Word: redivivus
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...volatile, self-inflated character remains as elusive on the last page as on the first. Terminal questions linger: Did conditions create the man, or did he create events? Was he a gifted charlatan, or Moses redivivus? It is only certain that he appeared and disappeared as if on celestial cue, leaving his work to more stable founders and builders. Unhappily, as this biography reluctantly demonstrates, the man was all too human-a naif, a hack and a monomaniac. Probably a touch of madness ran in his blood: two of his three children were suicides; so was his only grandchild...
...American family in times of crisis. Senator Ervin's tribute to Gail Magruder was more than a courtly Southern gentleman's acknowledgment of beauty; it was a signal that forgiveness was in the air. The Senate Select Committee hearings are not, after all, Perry Mason redivivus, complete with dueling attorneys, surprise witnesses and sudden breakdowns. They are, instead, a series of civics lessons, a priceless course in government. With their strong undertow of show business, they are also a drama reaching back to the ancient rites...
...movie does have one striking attribute: actors with real faces. Jeremy Kemp as a Down-Underhanded tout displays all seven sins between his forehead and his chin. Stanley Baker looks like a fist with sideburns. Michael Crawford is Buster Keaton redivivus...
Kaiser will receive a first prize of $100 for an entitled, "Marsyas Redivivus: An Essay on the Humanist Concept of the Poet...
...gave us back-in everything but name-our country. . . . They're a big people." But many a Boer, clinging to the memory of the pioneer Voortrekkers, whose ox wagons and rifles had beaten aside the yellow-brown Hottentots and the black Kaffirs, remained unreconstructed. They called Smuts Rhodes redivivus (Rhodes reborn), or Slim (sly, cunning) Jannie, and other more barbed names...