Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peculiar sensibility of her work -- its steely finesse and suppleness, its imagery of blossoming, unfolding and embrace -- coming with such conviction, or perhaps at all, from a man. O'Keeffe was a woman of exquisite moral vigor. Now that she is dead, no effort will be spared to convert her into a mere culture heroine. In the gap between her death and this banal transfiguration, one can at least look at her paintings...
...serious, high-minded fellow who is simply trying to turn the dross of reality into art. As he says of himself in a postscript to What the Dog Did, "Any experience that happens, it doesn't just have to be a good experience, and--BAM--Ian Frazier will convert it to writing of some kind...
...campaign attempts to convert what is by nature a process of debate into a lifeless recitation of sterile data. Teaching at its best is not unbiased; it is provocative. An effective teacher challenges the student to agree or disagree, and to think of reasons for doing...
Cambridge shelters have the resources to shelter additional individuals. In fact, Shelter, Inc. organizers have raised more than $250,000 to convert the former Congregational Church near Central Square into a transitional housing facility. But the city's zoning laws prohibit the construction of any more "community residence facilities" in that Central Square neighborhood...
...referee raised his arm to signal a penalty against the Crimson, and the RPI forwards--even as their goalie rushed to the bench to be replaced by an extra skater--dumped the puck into the Harvard zone and skated off for a line change, without even trying to convert the extra-man situation...