Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...careful to say they are writers, not performers, but they are almost as talented on the boards as on paper. Dramatics were perfectly designed, blocking and business minimal but maximally suggestive. Their voices, Comden's coloratura in particular, were the biggest surprise of all. Any entertainer able to transform the cavernous spaces of the Loeb mainstage into an intimate club has quite a noisemaker...
...face of a slowly gathering movement to crush the hard-won gains of women and oppressed nationalities, passivity is intolerable. The conservative forces have been mounting an ideological campaign against Affirmative Action for years. Apparently, they are now prepared to transform this ideological campaign into a political attack. Given this situation, the active motion of the University population in favor of democratic rights is crucial to resistance to the new Jim Crow
There are of course a multitude of possibilities, the most alluring of which is that, rather than transform women into men, or men into women, we all become men-women (or women-men) and that traditional sex roles be abandoned for the more natural in-between. But despite the ideal of a halcyon middle road, where men and women may co-exist on equal but functional terms, no model yet exists for it. For the most crucial factor in shedding a role is to establish one's own identity and individual requirements, for which there can be no set pattern...
...modern art. A striking transparent torso of a woman stuffed with American $1 bills adorns his Stockholm office. Wall's key strength as an executive-a virtue that pleases even Sweden's socialists-is his almost uncanny ability to spot the flaws in ailing firms and then transform the companies into profitable ventures. Supremely confident, he has no problem living with his success and big income. Says he: "I deserve...
...complaints about South African society today is that the English-language press is too free. He advocates a law that would prevent publication of the names of people detained without trial under the security laws-a prospect that appalls white moderates. Kruger's proposal, they fear, could transform South Africa from a police state into a secret police state...