Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power was awesome, his speed be yond belief, his touch so delicately pre cise that he could transform the most complicated passages into washes of pure color. And yet technique was not an end in itself; Busoni invariably sub ordinated pianistic skill to musical mean ing. Passion and intelligence were reconciled in sensibility, and in the last years of his life, says Busoni's biographer Ed ward Dent, his performances reflected "the spirit of a seer and visionary" and achieved a "grandeur" amounting to "prophetic inspiration...
...time, Johnson emphasized his theme of "action, not promises," in his message to Congress. Specifically, the U.S. expects beneficiary nations to "invest every possible resource in improving farming techniques, in school and hospital construction and in critical industry; make land reforms, tax changes and other basic adjustments necessary to transform their societies; face the population problem squarely and realistically; create the climate that will attract foreign investment and keep local money at home." In the past, recipients had only to agree with these criteria. Henceforth, they will have to show "solid evidence" of meeting them. The new policy seems custom...
Seven weeks. Zut! The man at Delmonico's wrung his hands. "Usually things like this are planned four or five months ahead," he moaned. But he would try. And right up to two hours before the party started, decorators and caterers struggled to transform the hotel's sedate, continental Crystal Room into a black-and-white striped tent with a "pop-op" decor. Then suddenly the room was filled with 445 stylish, milling guests and the music of Meyer Davis' orchestra. And dancing among them, smiling, shy and lovely, was the person it was all about-Anne...
...which means that the slippery stuff has another distinctive characteristic: it is thixotropic-a sudden shock can transform it from a solid to a liquid...
...though he shunned liquor and tobacco-Wallace sounded at times as if his visions were hashish-fed. "At a certain point," wrote Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Coming of the New Deal, "his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier and transform itself so that hardheaded analysis passed imperceptibly into rhapsodic mysticism." A Presbyterian, he flirted with an exotic cult led by a White Russian charlatan, served as an acolyte in the Episcopal Church and bombarded Roosevelt with allegorically couched advice on foreign policy. And, despite his closeness to the land and his concern for those who live...