Word: transformers
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...tale of a nameless deranged narrator who sits in his room at an overpriced Swiss sanitarium and purports to write a novel about a demented dreamer named Timothy Fogel. The narrator's own story about his itch to transform his experience into art and the Fogel "novel" are offered in alternating chapters...
...problem is the inability to transform this commitment (in sport, personal exchange, and artistic expression) into the social and academic activities that fill the greater portion of each day, and to a commitment to future careers. Currently the ability to make a leap of faith, a commitment to appealing traditional values and forms is lacking. There is a similar absence of faith in the existence of not merely interesting and profitable, but worthwhile intellectual inquiry of significance to the development of culture...
...ruination of the Old West was the advent of good women, who shuttered the bordellos, sent the highrollers packing, and imported pianos and preachers in a wistful attempt to transform mining camps into mini-Philadelphias. Baby Doe was not one of them. A pocket Venus from Oshkosh and no better than she should be, blonde, blue-eyed Elizabeth McCourt Doe had shed a feckless husband and arrived in Leadville - Colorado's Magic Mountain - almost at the moment in 1880 when the played-out gold fields turned out to be mere icing on the world's richest slice...
Looked at in the long run, the anti-Confucian diatribe is part of Mao's continuing effort to transform the nature of man. He wants to replace the Confucian habits of tranquillity, obedience and fatalism with a new Promethean man of struggle and combativeness. For him, Confucius continues to be a symbol of everything in China that represents hierarchy, stagnation and complacency. For that reason, the sage cannot be permitted to sleep in peace...
Sadat still faces hazards. One is that by relaxing state controls he may transform Egyptian life more than he intends. Says one critic: "How can you have freedom for foreign capital without freedom for local capital? How can you give freedom to the capitalist without giving freedom to the trade unions?" Regionally, Sadat's new friendship with Washington is fine as long as Israel continues to withdraw from Egyptian territory. But if the Israelis balk, Sadat at future Arab councils is likely to find himself the target rather than the central force...