Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gregory is remarkable for sheer theatricality. His special gift is to alter the ratio of expectation between an audience and a work. In Endgame, he has taken an austere doomsday play and injected it with manic laughing...
Whether or not the small coterie of artists will radically alter America's concept of the automobile, they have at least made a small dent in modern American...
...problems of moral choice? Would it be possible to group courses together which attempt to provide a basic understanding of painting, literature, music and other forms of art? This is more than merely a matter of classification. The process of identifying groups of courses along these lines will alter the way in which the institution informs its students about its aims while encouraging greater effort to insure that the curriculum responds to important educational objectives...
...fluency in the language and relaxation of travel restrictions would not alter the situation greatly. Tuchman finds herself listening with American ears, seeing through American eyes, and even smelling with an American nose. In concluding a description of harsh rural reality, she suddenly moves from the size of garden plots to a description of a "privy"--just one more victim of the American Bathroom Syndrome. She defines deficiencies in terms of American excesses. She even goes so far as to judge the inflections of Chinese music, a dangerous task when crossing cultural lines...
That is, perhaps the only way to interpret the emblems of democracy. Despite the radical and rightist cant, the American symbols contain no occult powers. Saluting them or reviling them can do nothing to alter social policy. Placing a decal on a car window does not grant the bearer a moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave...