Word: transformationalism
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...kind of knowledge needed by blacks is more than the mesmerizing rhetoric and the myopic prognosis of the para-intellectuals and self-acclaimed theoreticians of the past decade. We can no longer afford to transform profound political theorists--from Karl Marx to W.E.B. Du Bois to Frantz Fanon--into mythical characters, while turning their complex theories into catechistic blueprints for passionate action. Blacks need the kind of knowledge that flows from the subtle rationality of seriously committed intellectuals who have the enhancement of blacks foremost on their minds. We need the type of theoretical analysis that bases itself...
...liberal, optimistic vision of the secular city and of the human race was at odds with a growing undercurrent of disillusion about man's ability to transform either himself or his world. A Teilhard de Chardin might confidently view man's physical and spiritual evolution in the new scientific world as a limitless upward spiral, but Hitler and Hiroshima suggested that the spiral could also spin downward into new dimensions of evil...
...cast's credit that no other single character obtrudes beyond the delicate and tasteful interaction of the company. They transform a fundamental lack of character deliniation in the script into an asset, allowing their parts to grow naturally with on another. The best in Brock Patrick Walsh, a strong young David, whose fine singing adds much to his role. Paul Fitzgerald achieves a good sense of comraderie as his friend Nathan, and Michael Brewer possesses all the gruffness, wisdom and maturity of a prophet...
...cadres all over the country to universities and middle schools to investigate the situation there. Then there would be an article written collectively"-a process that can take up to a month. Once completed, People's Daily articles carry headlines noted for their painful solemnity: HOW TO TRANSFORM ONESELF INTO BELIEVING IN THE MASSES INSTEAD OF ONESELF or LET'S ALL LEARN REVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND GET RID OF EXPERIMENTALISM...
...difficulties of Friday's concert, however, are far less significant than the progressive trend of Thomas' musical inclination. By the range of his tastes, his education, his inherent abilities, and the esteem now accorded him, Tilson Thomas is uniquely 'qualified to transform the symphony orchestra into a flexible nucleus for the continuing expansion of the musical spectrum. It is a creative project which he takes seriously. And, he assured me, he is having no difficulty in financing his novel programs. Why then, I naturally wanted to know, did so many others adamantly maintain that unconventional programming was unfeasible...