Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a vicious kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa coolly demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama...
...Bella seems hurt that anyone could consider him power-mad. "We are making a real revolution that seeks to transform a whole society," he told last week's convention, pointing out truthfully that his regime has treated its few political prisoners mildly, and that "there has not been a single execution." Anyway, insists Ben Bella, he is not interested in creating a cult of personality. "Why," he protested, "I am the world's only head of government who does not have an official photograph...
...window of the Supply Squadron barracks. No one knows who did the shouting. No one agrees on what was shouted. But unquestionably, the shouts contained what Negro soldiers at Evreux call "the magic word"-nigger. Rushing into their own barracks, the Negroes grabbed 12-in. metal rods used to transform beds into bunks and raced across the street...
...Colonel, who wrote an early bestseller, The White Rose of Memphis, before he was gunned down by a neighbor suspicious of the colonel's intentions toward his wife. After he became "tired of a formal education" and quit school in the tenth grade, Bill decided to transform himself into a dandy; with the money he earned as a teller in his grandfather's bank, he bought a wardrobe of Styleplus clothes so dazzling that he became known locally as "The Count." For the rest of his life, recalls his brother, Bill dressed the part of a country squire...
...doctrine of karma, with its stress on individual responsibility not only for deeds but also for thoughts, in a word, for attitudes and their results, whether for good or evil, would hardly allow one to make such a statement as the above. In short, Buddhism would have us transform the world by first transforming ourselves. This is accomplished, according to Buddhist dogmatics by practicing six perfections: charity, morality, zeal in spiritual progress, patience, concentration leading to control of mind, and insight...