Word: transformation
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When called to serve by Clinton, Brown set out to transform one of the government's most sclerotic agencies. Within months, the Commerce Department--of all places--had its own "war room," with charts, maps and tallies of foreign contracts for which U.S. firms were competing. Brown's aggressive lobbying on behalf of U.S. corporations won rave reviews from business leaders. On trips to Japan, Brazil, Africa and a dozen other places, a seat on his plane became one of the most coveted perks of the Clinton Administration...
Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, set out to transform a college into a university, and to do this he sought to attract students of diverse religions and from diverse regions of the country. But by "diversity" Eliot meant a diversity of talents, not a mere variety of backgrounds, much less proportional representation of racial groups. Diversity was subordinated to the ruling principle of academic excellence and made to serve...
...There are howls, whoops, shrieks, stomping feet, menacing bass licks and orgasmic musical undulations that would be downright sinful if they weren't being done in the name of the Lord. All this is no accident--gospel by its very form has the power to take worldly emotions and transform them into something sacred, something uplifting. Unfortunately, much of what passes for gospel today is too slick, too processed, too angelically artificial to tap into the essential emotions and sublime passions that are provoked by the genre's original, rootsier form. There's no salvation to be found in daintiness...
Since 1979 when he first came to Harvard, Brustein has managed to transform theater education in much the same way he transformed the Yale School of Drama during his 13 years there, albeit on a smaller scale. The resulting curriculum takes a comprehensive approach to the essentials of staging a show, while liberally conceding that the students are artists, not just apprentices...
...poisons and uses them on his family, classmates and co-workers. Graham Young (Hugh O'Conor) is obsessed with chemistry and studies it with a passion. One day he learns all about Isaac Newton's lifelong obsession with antimony, a highly poisonous material, which when heated appears to transform itself into a diamond of breathtaking beauty. However, when Graham attempts to recreate the experiment it blows up in his face. And thus begins the life of the Poisoner...