Word: transforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth, however, is that revolutionaries are only peripherally responsible for the revolutions they make. At best they can do no more than transform a potentiality for revolution into an actuality. They cannot by their exertions create such a potential situation. Such situations are the result of basic economic and social inequities in a society. A large mass of people, oppressed and poor, will sooner or later breed its own firebrands. Persecuting them is as futile as attempting to eradicate malaria by annihilating every mosquito rather than cleaning the swamp...
...necessary to stress that public measures to control and alleviate the problem of automobile injuries and deaths quickly reached vast proportions. Just as the automobile rapidly permeated and soon began to transform American society, so did the measures adopted to deal with the problem of automobile accidents. It is reasonable to state that fairly soon the average adult American citizen came to have more direct dealings with government through the licensing and regulation of the automobile than through any other single public activity. Not all these dealings were especially uplifting, and some acquired implications all the more ominous because they...
...ever more widespread, and independent. More than that, he argues that methods should be set up, perhaps through an elected synod of laymen, for the laity to have some say in picking the Pope. He believes that the church's structure ought to be revised in order to "transform our system of absolutistic authority into one based on mutual service and partnership...
...Your Essay raises some serious questions about a political compromise with the Viet Cong. You suggest a coalition government and recognition of the V.C. as a political party, indicating that we might be able to "use" the V.C. to stabilize South Viet Nam and to transform the military struggle into a political one. The greatest mistake of the past in Viet Nam has been to underestimate the Communists, whether Viet Minh or Viet Cong. They are widespread and militarily strong -why should we think they would lay down their arms to become the "loyal opposition" in a republican government...
...friendship of Maria and Bonhoeffer blossomed into romance in 1942, after her graduation from high school. "The rapport," she remembers, "was immediate. He was able to transform the fumblings and erratic emotions of a young girl into the assured certainty that this was an addition and a source of strength to his own life." Following their engagement, Bonhoeffer initially accepted the prospect of a lengthy betrothal out of respect to Maria's family. "But soon," she writes, "he objected clearly, decisively and repeatedly. When we succeeded in changing the dictum, it was too late; he had been imprisoned...