Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poets seem to be peering at the dawn of the world; Cavafy stares at its doom, a weary Olympian contemplating the "toys of fate." With age, the poet might have become a complete Cassandra of declivity. But he never relinquished his belief in the power of the artist to transform the sordid into the contemplative serenity of beauty...
...eminence he enjoyed during the Baroque era when the written notes were often treated as a rack on which to drape gaudy ornaments. But those ornaments were determined by narrowly evolved traditions, while in Berio there is the love of chance for its own sake. Berio has helped to transform the delicate creature of Baroque ornamentation into an ugly chance-created monster which often seems to subsume the composed framework. It is a monster that Berio uses to express the disorder of contemporary life...
...troika of generals that has just assumed unlimited power in Lisbon could well transform Portugal into Western Europe's first Communist nation. It might be an orthodox Marxist state, as envisaged by one of the Continent's few remaining Stalinist Communist Party bosses, Alvaro Cunhal. It might also evolve into a different kind of radically leftist society, borrowing inspiration from Fidel Castro's Cuba, Houari Boumedienne's Algeria and Mao's China. Either way, the Red threat in Portugal vitally affects the political stability of the western Mediterranean and the future of the North Atlantic...
...lyric tone, fluid structure and vigorous rhythms give it a musical quality that explanation mutes. In Doctorow's hands, the nation's secular fall from grace is no catalogue of sin. no mere tour de force; the novelist has managed to seize the strands of actuality and transform them into a fabulous tale...
Finally giving in to the pressure, Madrid last week declared its intention "to transform the sovereignty over the territory as soon as possible in the form and manner that best suits the inhabitants." While Franco must regret losing the valuable phosphate deposits, he has undoubtedly learned from the Portuguese experience just how costly an attempt to hang on to a colony can be. Moreover, as a Madrid University political scientist notes: "What this government does not need is a new international problem...