Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years he performs only for a microphone in a recording studio, and only rarely at that. To Horowitz fans, the disks are photographs pressed in an album; they trigger memories, but there is no blood in them. He is enveloped in mystery. Cultists transform him into a deity. He becomes a legend, never seen, yet somehow remembered. Then, in 1965, he realizes that he and an entire generation are strangers. Quixotically he announces that after twelve sheltered years in the wings he will go onstage again...
...Oriental families have already bought in-most of them, according to Agent Edward W. Moose, "people who believe in interracial housing and feel the price is right." Shops, schools and recreation facilities will be added to service a population expected to surpass 3,500 by 1969. The goal: to transform Marin City from a microcosm of big-city racial woes into an integrated community befitting its idyllic setting. "If we can't do it here," says Byron Leydecker, chairman of the county supervisors, "we can't do it anywhere...
...naturalistic interest in detail often becomes an emphasis upon the particular as opposed to the general. In Durer's Samson Conquering the Philistines, as in many Gothic inspired drawings, the strong emotionalism, the decorative detail, and the interlacing forms combine with some conscious symbolism to transform the highly realistic detail into a mystical iconography...
Conservationists and health officials urged the construction of a dam to keep the sea water out and to transform the Charles into an entirely fresh water river. In 1908, the Charles River Dam was built near the present site of the Museum of Science, and the eight-and-a-half mile long, 300 million gallon capacity Charles River Basin was created. The fresh water basin could have absorbed and treated "naturally" the storm water overflow sewage...
...Wilson above Los Angeles, the heat produced as a byproduct could be guided into the atmosphere, raising the inversion layer that hangs over Los Angeles to 19,000 feet, thus ridding the city of smog. A sea breeze could be drawn into the space beneath, bringing rain that would transform the high desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas into a flowering land...