Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bear witness to these unspeakable happenings? In his moving introduction to her book, the German Nobel-prizewinning novelist Heinrich Böll notes that though many shared Ginzburg's experience, "very few can narrate it, even fewer can write about it, and it is these few who transform personal experience into testimony." Ginzburg tells us that her book was the "main object" of her life in captivity. Like Solzhenitsyn she committed names, facts and events to memory by incorporating them into long rhymed poems that she could more easily memorize...
...Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale, at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga.: "America cannot allow itself to transform the public schools into warehouses for the angry...
...Colony. It is the domain of Johnny Campo, the controversial trainer who violated one of the conventions of the racing world by brashly predicting victory for his once obscure colt: A new coat of paint might spiff up Pleasant Colony's stable, but no amount of maintenance will transform Johnny Campo into a gentleman. A combative New York City street kid who worked his way up, Campo is loud, untidy and embarrassingly blunt...
...Internationale. "After World War II, Mauroy became a teacher and began working at Socialist Party headquarters in Paris. He eventually moved to Lille and became mayor in 1973. Mauroy's meeting with Mitterrand in 1965 was a union between a dogged tactician and a strategic visionary that helped transform the party. In the early 1970s, Mitterrand visualized a broad alliance with the Communist Party; Mauroy hammered out the details. When the alliance collapsed, Mauroy brought the idealistic Mitterrand back to the pragmatic center. The new Premier is expected to pursue what is possible, unblinded by what he once called...
...confrontation between delegates and their guest speaker, UNESCO Director-General Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, that his interpreter was unable to keep up with the angry exchanges. UNESCO'S press curbs, said Cushrow Irani, chairman of the International Press Institute and publisher of The Statesman of Calcutta, would "transform the press into an instrument of governments." British Journalist and Author Rosemary Righter (Whose News?) reminded the director-general that he had once said the press should be responsible "for promoting cohesion and integration" in Third World nations. M'Bow, a Senegalese educator, heatedly denied that he intended...