Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing: "You see women walking about the streets, looking like Eunuchs -waddling like pregnant dachshunds, or as scrawny as ostriches, with swollen bodies, varicose veins, wadded breasts or tight stays hidden under their clothes." The magistrates were greatly offended by Sinyavsky's suggestion that the government might transform human fetuses into fish to provide food for the people. The judges, lacking a sense of humor or satire, could not see the parallel to Swift...
...monthly, EVO boasts a circulation of 10,000 after just eight months on the streets. "We are in favor of evolution, not revolution," says Managing Editor Allan Katzman, 29, a poet with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the City College of New York. "We hope to transform the middle class by internal and external stimuli, by means of media and LSD." Though EVO is obsessed with LSD, Katzman still finds generous space for an avant-garde international survey of the arts called "Voyeurama," a rambling column by John Wilcock (an original staffer on the now middle-aged...
...AGGRESSION, by Konrad Lorenz. In this fascinating natural history of violence, a celebrated Austrian naturalist traces the all-too-human passion of aggression to its roots in the lower phyla and finds there an inherent (and hopefully inherited) capacity to transform aggression into love...
...galling years, said Ball, France has managed to "transform the Common Market into a mere commercial arrangement," shut Britain out of Europe by whim, deny Germany participation in nuclear control "so as to preserve its own exclusive position as the sole nation with nuclear weapons on the Western European continent," and force the restructuring of NATO "in order to achieve freedom of political maneuver that could permit it to deal, to its own advantage, with what it has described with a curious impartiality as 'the two great hegemonies...
...small group of militant Orthodox fundamentalists, all three branches participate in the Synagogue Council of America, which coordinates the assignment of federal prison chaplains and certain Jewish activities in civic affairs. Recently the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, representing 21 secular and religious agencies, voted to transform itself into a stronger and more centralized body, which hopes to enable Jewry to speak "with one voice" on all "major Jewish issues of our time...