Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan must restore some imperial privileges, must transform the Diet's Upper House into a semi-appointive body, must abrogate certain clauses of the democratic "MacArthur Constitution...
...roots of present French weakness go deep into the roots of the very economy and habits of the country. Mendés-France is out to transform the economy of France from a cobwebbed cartelized stand-pattism into a vigorous competitive capitalism. To do this he must step on some well-shod toes, but in the ensuing process France will leave the bread line of U.S. foreign aid and take her rightful place in the community of Western nations...
...sees her inviolate body of water sullied by "an audacious backwoodsman's canoe." Acting as a Zealot, she will use her supernatural power to freeze the water solid. As a Herodian, she will eventually drain her lake bed dry. But in either case, says Toynbee, she will only transform her lake into a road and let in the "landlubber dry-shod." Roughly translated into the different, present-day situation (in which the West is very far from being "at bay"), the Zealots might advocate stringent repression of all hostile ideas, as well as dropping a few atomic bombs...
...Final Test is dull, Stratford Adventure is offensive. It is a documentary about Canada's Shakespeare festival in 1953, and like so many festival pictures, it goes to great lengths to show that culture can be brought to the masses. With quivering voice, the narrator tells how sewing circles transform themselves into Shakespeare study groups, and how every window displays a picture of the Bard. The scenario seems as patronizing to human nature...
...days on end. This week, however, the tired man goes to Brussels, where he will try to persuade the five other EDC signatories* to accept his modifications. Brussels may well be the highest hurdle. For the other signatories are well aware that Mendès' protocols all but transform EDC from a supranational community (an idea with great appeal to Pan-Europeans) into an old-fashioned military coalition, with discriminations against West Germany...