Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happily, the prestidigitator who presides over all this is Iris Murdoch, a literary magician who can transform a traditional romantic triangle into at least a hexagon at the split of an infinitive. As it turns out, every soul for miles around is both loved and in love-in every combination of age and sex known. But the often unseemly relationships never seem seamy...
...doing the egg beater over and over again, Davis was able to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. This meant that though his inspiration might come from the object, he was not imprisoned by it. Davis' paintings became ballets of what he called "color-spaces," but the beat of the ballets was always jazz. What caught his imagination was everyday America-the gas pumps, factories, cities, the hep talk and hip music-even the signs, "the visual dialect of the city." Since he never lost touch with reality, Davis refuses to be called...
This was the speech that revealed Castro's distrust of the U.S. and his view that the transform of social conditions could be effected only by force, on the Comunist pattern. But Figueres, for his concern with Cuba's future and his willingness to hear Castro, got a grateful reception from the Cuban people. Though their views already diverged, Castro's trust dissolved slowly, and Figueres still appeared on Cuban television the following two nights...
...civil defense authorities ask Harvard to transform its basements into shelters this summer, Pusey said, "we will make up our minds then" on the basis of the specific action requested. "We never anticipate," he added...
...marvelous wheels in the sky seen by the prophet Ezekiel. The Princes of the Church, he said, are men who "move around the throne of the most highest, who have no concern except for his glory, except to carry forward his fiery chariot, who when they touch the earth transform it with the ardor of their charity...