Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commander of the Second Army (see col. 2), Lieut. General Ben Lear's duty has been to transform hundreds of thousands of young civilians into soldiers. Last week, flat-bellied and fit but pushing 64, Disciplinarian Lear announced that he would retire next month as a field officer. (His probable assignment: a desk job on onetime Chief of Staff Malin Craig's general promotion board...
...Transform war industry to peacetime labor, meet the problems of war expenditures, averaging in the U.S. alone almost $100,000,000,000 a year, release drafted labor throughout the world, invite the functions of private enterprise, resolve the political fights over the course of the postwar world, create agencies which will make effective the commitments the United Nations have already agreed upon, establish some functioning international order which will break the way to release the promise of the future...
Neat, round, goateed, vaguely bomb-shaped Sir Thomas Beecham plummeted into Brooklyn, announced: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment. However, if there is anything I can do. . . ." But the British maestro whipped the year-old Brooklyn Symphony into a little demonstration of Mozart and Beethoven that stole the musical show from the neighboring New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski. "I prefer the smaller orchestras," sniffed Sir Thomas, "because they're better behaved. I find they're not possessed of this overweening self-satisfaction...
...three actors and actresses transform the drama into the most powerful production to hit Boston in many a season. Byron McGrath's portrayal of the vitriolic Jack Manningham will send chills jumping from vertebra to vertebra for three solid hours. His tortured, neurotic wife, as played by Lynn Phillips, is a study in desperate hatred. Relief from all this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street...
...shame, the torment" of adolescence; and in that particular sense Mark Twain's whole memory of Hannibal is "a libel [on] a full-blooded folk." But "in what he perceived, in what he felt, in the nerve-ends of emotion, in the mysterious ferments of art which transform experience, he was a great mind-there has been no greater in American literature." DeVoto notes the almost Shakespearean abundance of life that floods Mark Twain's two greatest books-the "authority over the imagination of mankind" which gives them their strong mythical enchantment. Nevertheless, some readers may find...