Word: revolutionize
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But turning visions into reality has always been the trickiest step in conducting a successful revolution. Five years after the first approved experiments on humans in the U.S., there are now 600 Americans enrolled in 100 clinical trials. Yet after all the tests and all the hype, there is still...
Yet some doubt the celibacy rule is responsible for the decline in the priesthood. It was never an easy cross to bear, they point out. Why should it be harder now than it has been throughout much of the church's 2,000-year history? "People say the sexual revolution...
Rupert Murdoch's new conservative magazine, the Weekly Standard, published its first issue in September. It is the self-styled voice of the conservative revolution. The headline emblazoned across the magazine's cover was PERMANENT OFFENSE. But the most notable article was a virtual endorsement of Powell for President by...
This, one might have thought, would have been enough to make Copley grab a berth on the next ship to London. He did nothing of the sort. At 28 he was already the one big fish in Boston's tiny cultural pond. In London he would have been a sprat...
Perhaps the finest of Copley's family portraits is that of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin, done in 1773. Mifflin was a rich young radical Whig of Quaker origins, who would become George Washington's aide-de-camp and, after the Revolution, Governor of Virginia. The portrait is very sober...