Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction adjacent to Grand Central Terminal, is the world's largest office building, big enough to contain all the business offices of Little Rock, Spokane and Akron combined. Boston has $1 billion worth of construction under way or being planned, including a $150 million Prudential Center that will transform the city's Back Bay. Houston, with $353 million worth of new construction either just completed or under way, is rushing to finish its 44-story Humble Oil & Refining Co. Building, a status skyscraper that will be the highest west of the Mississippi. Chicago has changed its profile with...
More than that, she managed to transform songs about Negroes into songs about the human condition. "No Room at the Hotel," for example, looked at first to be the archtypical protest chant, but ordinary Freedom Riders fare would dissolve under comparison. In one of her most exciting solos, "I'm On My Way," she sang: "We've had a hard journey, but we're on our way." It was a statement of progress...
...framework of democratic consent, said Rusk, an "alliance for progress" had been carried out within the U.S. And he eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek to replace democracy by dictatorship-those who would transform our fellowship of free states into the bondage of satellites." The Cubans, led by Castro's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós, laughed out loud. The other 19 delegations gave Rusk a standing ovation. But though the delegates stood together to applaud in the resort's converted gambling...
...lessons being drawn from Cuba's march to the left would be amusing if they represented only the grumblings of the know-nothings. But they are being incorporated into United States Latin-American policy at a time when significant departure is called for. And they may well transform the Alliance for Progress into an attempt to buy an untenable status...
...replacing the archaic system of representation by class, the seven-man re-evaluation committee recognized the Houses as the significant units in the College today. If approved, the constitution they propose may transform an ineffectual Council, confused as to its constituency and schizophrenic about its purpose, into an organ with a functional role in the University community. The council which it creates will work on a smaller scale and will drop the pretense of being the official spokesman for all students. In its more modest position it will stop trying to censor other student activities and organizations...