Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from pithy comments on soldiering, Warner's Caesar defends himself as a kind of imperial efficiency expert surrounded by captious, old-fashioned critics, including Cicero and Cato, who are blindly resisting change. He is an Organization Superman who wants to transform Rome from a forum of squabbling, parochial rivals to an orderly, centralized headquarters of empire. Argues Caesar: "A great empire could not be administered by relays of incompetent politicians. 'Liberty' meant nothing but restriction and inefficiency...
...ropes of the DNA molecules untwisted, separated into single strands with no biological potency. In quickly cooled solutions, the strands stayed that way. But when the solution was cooled slowly, the separated strands had time to find each other, and twist together and regain much of their power to transform living bacteria...
...almost frightening possibilities for tinkering with life. DNA from related species of bacteria can be mixed together, and the strands can then be separated. When the solution is slowly cooled, the strands often join with partners of the other species, yielding chemical hybrids that can be used to transform bacteria into living, reproducing hybrids. By a similar process DNA can be created that will give such properties to bacteria as resistance to antibiotics. There is no theoretical reason why chemical hybridization cannot be applied to higher organisms, the highest of which...
Western statesmen expect no dramatic agreements, but never during the cold war has the West, in moments of realism, expected any sweeping settlement of East-West conflicts. The hope underlying U.S. policy has been that if negotiation could keep resolving crises without war, internal changes within Russia would gradually transform it into a less monolithic society, ruled by a less hostile government...
...Europe seemed to have accepted D'Annunzio's cruel philosophy, but he was at least willing to pay a Cinna's price and be torn for his bad verses. He survived 50 actions and almost as many uniforms-for the poet used his prestige to transform himself at will into a cavalry lieutenant, an infantry officer, a combat airman, and he conferred on himself the navy title of comandante. He lost the sight of one eye landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat. To the end he remained the most bellicose of belligerents...