Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going even farther, Britain's Labor government is willing to transform the International Monetary Fund into a world central bank that would not only lend money but also create it. Though De Gaulle's call for a return to the gold standard has been roundly rejected, the French believe that they have won an important psychological battle: just about everybody wants to change the money system to give the world more floating capital...
Changing the Face. The office has seemed to transform the man. He is calmer, more tolerant, less inclined to mike-shattering speeches. He has surrounded himself with young, energetic talent: a 29-year-old Agriculture Minister, a 34-year-old Director of Roads, a 34-year-old Director of Planning. The army seems satisfied, and Belaunde has proved a deft politician in dealing with the opposition that controls 110 of the 185 congressional seats. "Our position," says an APRA leader, "is one of critical cooperation...
While even skillful cameramen cannot transform Bates's boringly vacant expressions, elsewhere the photography is superb. It captures the harshness of the landscape and the flowers which spring up at Easter time. And it focuses on the expressions of the people of Crete (thus listed in the credits...
...Primary Mission. These perennial opponents have been joined by a number of responsible laymen and clerics of the council's member churches who are arguing vigorously that the main business of the clergy is to save souls, and not to transform society. One of them is the Rev. Carl Henry, editor of the fortnightly Christianity Today, who argues that the clergy's primary mission "is to invite sinful men to their Savior and Lord, who shapes a new character and morality. The clergy have neither a divine mandate nor authority nor special competence to articulate particular programs...
...supplant such earlier images as the carefree Huck Finn type, the early-to-work Horatio Alger model and the heavily psychological "adolescent" of three decades back. It was the culmination of the process by which, as Sociologist Denney points out, the U.S. became the first nation to transform children from "a family asset as labor to a family liability as student-consumer." That liability is one that the U.S. seems willing to afford; it has created a flourishing subculture whose goals, heroes, styles and customs are, in the teen-age word of admiration, "tough...