Word: transformation
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Oedipus Rex. By Sophocles. If you thought you knew this script, think again. Immerse yourself in Oedipus and jocasta's surreal and supernatural world and feel their fates unfold. Sound, light and movement transform this classical piece into a frightening and gripping saga of two destinies. Loeb EX, 7:30 p.m. Free...
...Bois was cut out to be a modern intellectual: conflicted, inconsistent and alienated from the conditions and customs of the race he strove to transform. To begin with, he was a Northerner and nearly as white as he was black. There were Dutch and French as well as West African branches on his family tree. He was a child prodigy who became an editor, activist and writer. His best-known book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), gave new dimension to understanding racism through the concept of double consciousness, which he described as "this sense of always looking...
...Clinton Administration still regards training as the key to putting America's growing army of laid-off employees back to work. In a long-delayed initiative, the Administration plans to ask Congress next year for $3 billion to transform the current hodgepodge of federal job programs into a unified effort to retrain the more than 2 million workers who lose jobs each year...
...social commentary has never been the core of Graham's mission. His ministry rests on the notion that if individuals are brought to God and their lives transformed, they in turn will go out and transform society. That priority, and even more his zeal for social orderliness, often kept Graham on the sidelines, particularly during the civil rights movement. Though he insisted on racially integrated seating at his revival meetings, Graham says Martin Luther King Jr. himself advised in a lengthy talk that "if you go to the streets, your people will desert you, and you won't have...
...Bois was cut out to be a modern intellectual: conflicted, inconsistent and alienated from the conditions and customs of the race he strove to transform. To begin with, he was a Northerner and nearly as white as he was black. There were Dutch and French as well as West African branches on his family tree. He was a child prodigy who became an editor, activist (he was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P.) and writer. His best-known book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), gave new dimension to understanding racism through the concept of double consciousness, which he described...