Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of the exchange within the Church and the Defense Department rests partly in the fact that such experiences transform confessional statements into declaratory acts. Polarization occurs. Conflicts develop. People who were silent begin to speak out. Values that people have held intellectually--about justice, truth, love, and compassion--become acts as well as beliefs. People who until recently led quiet and uninvolved lives are becoming political activists. Some are members of churches and others are not. And as the force of their commitments may chance to coincide with each other's and with some formal statement within the Confession...
...electric harpsichord, in which the sounding board has been replaced by guitar-type pickups leading to an amplifier. Special switches allow the player to transform the instrument's traditional tinkle into approximations of a vibraphone, a guitar and even a banjo. Admits the manufacturer, Baldwin Piano and Organ Co.: "There's not much left in the harpsichord that Bach would recognize besides the name...
...acres of the Messara Plain, developing mines and industry so as to increase employment by 72%. In the western Peloponnesus, Litton proposes that Greece increase the number of hotel beds from 1,000 to 50,000, build three new airports, develop five industrial centers and five harbors, and transform Olympia into some sort of Greek Disneyland...
...consumption and materialistic satisfaction. Radical change, in this case, will not only replace the present owners of the means of production but will challenge the entire ethic which makes such ownership worth while. For SDSers reject the "crass materialism" of present society -- the values as Greg Calvert notes, that "transform people into consumers of things." They reject the statistical economic indices of the government -- employment rates, gross national product, etc. -- as true measures of the quality of life. The "main and transcending" concern of society, Tom Hayden has written, "must be the unfolding and refinement of the moral, aesthetic...
...divide and demoralize their victims. Identity cards would be issued to some Jews; the others would soon disappear. Next, new cards would be given to some of the survivors, while the remainder again would be carted away. Methods of subdividing and conquering were continued in the camps and helped transform the shrinking group of survivors into near beasts. At length came the Treblinka uprising-one of the few in any Nazi camp-and 600 prisoners escaped to a nearby forest. All but 40 were hunted down. That the uprising could happen at all in such circumstances emerges as something...