Word: transformers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days out of seven, Floyd's grille in the basement of Cabot House's Barnard Hall just serves hamburgers and other snacks to undergraduates. But on Fridays, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., jazz music and dim lighting transform the spot into "Cookin' at the Grille," Harvard's first nightclub...
...fraction of the country. With a quarter of the world's people scattered across 3.69 million sq. mi., China is so vast and complex that even the most far-reaching reforms will take years to filter down to every farm, village and faraway province. Nor can any regime transform almost overnight a proud nation saddled with a 3,000-year history of turbulence...
...reality, there has been such a schism, created, nurtured and refined by whites since the first slave ship reached these shores in 1619. What Reverend Jackson's candidacy has done is recognize this schism and provide an opportunity for Black voters to participate in, and, by so doing, transform, a political system which has this schism as a fundamental part of its foundation, and which, therefore, is itself morally bankrupt...
...Afro-American students associated with BALSA, is especially shocking, in light of Black Americans long and bitter experience with racist victimization and brutalization. It is hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...
...motive led the producers to choose the play in the first place. The play hardly bolsters the interests of art or humanity when it tells the audience (after inviting them to laugh pitilessly at other people's stupidity) that a change in their beliefs about themselves is sufficient to transform their lives. Most people improve their lives only through sustained work or love, and the promise of easy change from within is as misleadingly mean-spirited as it is ultimately depressing. It is perversity to tell people with problems--that is to say, all of us--that a change...