Word: transforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either way, their aim was to transform American education. They frequently referred to themselves as "manufacturers." They would first design their product, the new curriculum; test it in a laboratory; then adapt it for a trial assembly line -- the co-operating school system -- and finally, they hoped, for many assembly lines...
Under the direction of President a. Lawrence Lowell '77, Harvard began to transform itself from a provincial to a national unversity and as the members of the Class of 1916 registered as freshmen in September, 1912 the signs of Lowell's administration were evident...
...Director Norman Jewison and Scenarist William Rose, working from a novel by Nathaniel Benchley, seem too anxious, or too unsubtle, to sound the depths of a delightfully quirky human comedy. Instead they try too often for ding-dong farce, calling on a corps of hard-sell comedians to transform the townfolk into strident cartoons. Jonathan Winters as an addled police officer, Ben Blue as an irrelevant drunk, and Paul Ford as a sword-swinging Legionnaire are the chief offenders, since their familiar broad comedy bits beget feeble satire of Birchite fear and hysteria. This seasonable breach of security is well...
...this oblique approach, he says, to avoid the Judaic religious restrictions on graven images. "In flux, one cannot perceive reality, but only a part of it," he says. As a result, his works may not stand alone impressively enough as masterpieces, but they seem a magnificently practical way to transform blank-walled, vast public wastelands and enormous rooms into lively and provocative architectural gardens...
Acronyms Aweigh. As far as Congress was concerned, the most compelling argument for the anti-poverty program was that it could ultimately transform chronic "tax eaters," in Johnson's phrase, to new taxpayers. Even before it received congressional approval, Shriver had started gathering staffers and ideas. "How in the hell do you fight a war on poverty?" he asked everyone within earshot. "What do you do?" Laboring up to 16 hours a day, the anti-poverty warriors were shunted all over the capital, found themselves at one point in the basement morgue of an ancient hospital, at another...