Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torpid King Savang Vatthana has sat for five months treating the whole civil war with lofty disdain. But General Phoumi made no attempt to pursue, airily declared that his jungle garrisons would take care of Kong Le along the way. General Phoumi's only announced policy is to "transform all Laotians into Laotians" (i.e., non-Communists). To which Prince Boun Oum added this sage advice: "One can get medicine even out of poisoned mushrooms...
Even so, Tunes of Glory is a thoroughly superior piece of entertainment, thanks to Actor Guinness. It is amazing how this shy. soft man can transform himself-with a hank of hair, a dab of rouge and an almost imperceptible modulation of his India-rubber personality-into a roaring extravert, all man and a doorway wide...
...should be motivated by complex, but discernible and plausible psychological impulses. His intense resentment of Vogler's art reflefted in his sententious speeches can only be explained in symbolic terms. However, Vergerius's symbolization is not even barely convincing. He remains a curt cynic despite Bergman's attempt to transform him into a symbol of Rationalism. This injection of the Symbol into highly realistic characters has given Bergman trouble in the past--but never to such an extent...
Some leadership could, of course, be exercised through construction bills: limits on money spent for auditoriums and athletic facilities would create more classrooms and might transform the proportion of attention devoted to the scholastic curriculum...
...Ralph Bunche fired off an angry protest to the Congolese government. Assuring Bunche of his "deep and .sincere personal regrets," the Congo's able young Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko concluded his reply: "But what can I do?" It was a fair question. What, indeed, could anyone do to transform Patrice Lumumba's Congo into a reasonable facsimile of a civilized state...