Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Transformation. The B5000 is the most sophisticated commercial computer Burroughs has turned out in the short time it has been in the business. It came into being because President Eppert decided that computers were becoming too complex, that customers were waiting for something cheaper and simpler to operate. If he is right, Burroughs may at last be firmly established in a hotly competitive field dominated by International Business Machines and the Remington Rand division of Sperry Rand. It will also mark a dramatic turn in Burroughs' effort to transform itself from a somewhat stodgy old-line adding machine maker...
...Berlin streets were clogged with human monsters-fat, seminaked whores, bulbous businessmen, thin-lipped officers with monocles and Iron Crosses. Rape and murder fascinated him, and the death that hovers over sickbeds and alongside dozing old beggars. Though Grosz was an impeccable draftsman, he used fierce, childlike lines to transform the world into a nightmare of distortion. "I always like to be a little tortured," he said. "You like to laugh, but you also like to be hit. It's the schizophrenia of the German race...
Singing such numbers as Dynamite, Bill Bailey, When the Saints Go Marching In, she can transform herself with a clap of her chubby hands from a comics-reading teen-ager into a tortured woman. But her career suggests a peculiar problem: if she sounds 32 at 16, how will she sound...
...what the scientists did was to transform the earth and its future. They were surely the adventurers, the explorers, the fortunate ones?and the Men of the Year...
...life on the family farm in Wahoo, Neb. when he got a crush on his pretty high school science teacher. Neither Beadle nor science ever quite got over it. The farm boy went to college and became a geneticist. With skill, patience and insatiable curiosity he helped to transform his narrow, abstruse specialty into a vital branch of science. Moving on from the classic fruit-fly experiments which had extended the study of heredity, Beadle began to investigate the intricate internal chemistry of bread mold. His observations led to a major scientific breakthrough: the first intimations of the manner...