Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this day, as most days lately, the place was alive with wonder. Stevie Cauthen, the most exciting 16-year-old jockey anybody can remember, was continuing to transform elderly platers into Pegasuses. "The kid is so hot he's got three agents," said Patrick W. Lynch, a closet intellectual who is a vice president of the New York Racing Association. "Lenny Goodman gets him his mounts. Mark McCormack, who handled people like Jack Nicklaus, sets up side deals. Swifty Lazar, Nixon's agent, is arranging the book...
...lost, because it's playoff time, the time when the winter sports transform into spring and even summer sports. Boston, among the greatest of sports cities is represented in both the NHL and NBA playoffs...
...judging by the genius of their work. Using a camera of their own invention, they have gone searching for the facts of existence with a vision that intensifies that existence. Masters of the photographic medium, the five possess perceptions that can take what appear to be simple realities and transform them into something more. Surrealism, superealism--these seem unsatisfactory and overly categorical terms to name such magic. No words can really capture this show--only seeing...
...Paul Robeson, like Walter Leonard, was a person seeking to transform the American democracy so all persons can have equal rights and privileges," Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change at the Divinity School, said yesterday...
...college costs, the applicant pool for the Class of 1981 is the largest in Harvard history. Obviously there are students whose parents are willing and able to pay for the Harvard mystique. But in spite of the University's lipservice to the ideal of diversity, the trend may transform the student body into more of an economic elite than it already...