Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While elaborate plans are drawn to transform the waterfront into a residential paradise and Scollay Square into a glistening Government Center (as one cynic remarked, replacing one kind of vice with another), nowhere do they outline a meaningful war on poverty...
...Wilson's idea is not to transform the Joint Center from an intellectual clearing house into an all-purpose consulting firm. His hope is to maintain "a balance between permissive basic research and some organized collaborative efforts...
Yannatos' score, especially as interpreted by soprano Chloe Owen, exhibits perfect understanding of every line of the poem and an ability to transform this understanding into music. The audience stopped looking at the translation of the text during the first poem, but it continued to respond, with comprehension and laughter, to the music itself. The work is humorously, but thoughtfully, refreshing...
...prodded by the gains of the Mississippi Project, SCLC is planning a ten-week summer program this year which may transform the organization. Its Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE) aims to send some 600 volunteers into about 70 rural Black Belt and urban counties in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to conduct programs in voter registration, adult literacy, and political education...
...this method proved a deadend. The volunteers had neither the time nor the experience to transform a stop-sign protest into full-fledged organization on each street. And each block remained a separate unit, rather than fusing into a larger movement...