Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernhard is working to transform the Dutch Resistance forces into a compact, mobile army for use in liberating The Netherlands East Indies. He has surrounded himself with bright young Resistance men & women. One of his secretaries is a Communist. Except for his personal aide, all of his group are commoners. His popularity had kept pace with his political growth. Dutch citizens now line the streets and cheer when his custom-built Alfa-Romeo whizzes by. In an Amsterdam theater recently the audience kept him on his feet, pumping hands and talking, until...
...most outstanding features of the current performance are a glaring disunity of direction, bad characterization, and bad technique, all of which serve to transform Ibsen's social drama into a mere drawing room conflict between husband and wife...
Pope Pius XII spoke wise words: "In this grave moment radio can exercise the work of cohesion among the people, reconciliation and love among all nations, but in the hands of perverse men it can also transform itself into an instrument of hatred and ruin...
...Pont this week announced a new product as highly potential as its nylon. It is wood impregnated with chemicals which transform it into a hard, polished material. Engineers call it "compreg...
Meanwhile it was hinted to Publishers Reynal & Hitchcock that certain "minor changes" might make Strange Fruit suitable for Boston. Retorted Reynal & Hitchcock: "[We] have no intention whatsoever of tampering with a fine and important book in order to transform it into what official Boston might regard as acceptable." Outside the Athens of America, Strange Fruit was selling 3,000 copies a day, while a new edition of 50,000 copies was tumbling off the press...