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Death's most embarrassing failure: the comeback nobody saw coming, least of all the corpse.
means A bringing back to life, use, or popularity — whether of a person, a tradition, a fashion, or a religious fervor that had quietly gone dormant.
from From Latin 'revivere,' to live again — 're-' (again) bolted onto 'vivere' (to live), the same root that animates 'vivid,' 'survive,' and 'vivacious.' It arrived in English via the verb 'revive' in the late Middle Ages, with the noun 'revival' following a couple of centuries later. The religious sense — the tent-meeting, soul-saving 'revival' — is a later flowering, especially in 18th- and 19th-century America, where faith was treated as something that could, like a fire, be coaxed back from embers.
- economic comeback
- Rome's Renaissance literally means rebirth of lost ancient knowledge
- medical reality
- CPR was only standardized as a technique in 1960
- theatrical term
- Broadway revivals win Tonys in their own dedicated category
- tent meetings
- Frontier revivals once drew crowds larger than nearby towns
- music genre
- Folk, swing, and ska have all clawed back from death
great awakening — religious movement in 1730s-1740s america with jonathan edwards and george whitefield
harlem renaissance — african american cultural movement in 1920s new york with writers like langston hughes
british invasion — rock music revival led by the beatles and rolling stones in 1960s