Word: transforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME's patronizing account of Appalachia [Nov. 5] and its smug assumption that it is desirable to "transform the mountaineer into a middle-class American" makes my blood boil. One of the great glories of America is the wide diversity of people to be found within its borders. Homogenizing our population is deadening our culture as surely as leveling the Rocky Mountains and the Grand Canyon would ruin our scenery...
BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. An eerie, fascinating journey into the depths of an insane mind, told with a grace and skill that transform psychiatry into living literature...
...felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my joins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light...
...burns only during visiting hours"). Milton Berle and Margaret Leighton enliven one interlude as a married pair squabbling over the remains of their dear departed, a dog named Arthur. Jonathan Winters succeeds outrageously as the mastermind of Whispering Glades, who wants to "get those stiffs off my property" and transform his real estate into a haven for senior citizens. His brainstorm ("Resurrection-Now!"): disinter the cadavers and, beginning with a dead astronaut, fire them into eternal orbit...
Just Cordwood. An old story to most big U.S. industries, automation is still a source of pride and wonder to the packers who are using it to transform basic operation. The biggest change has come about in in the production and marketing of processed meats --51;sausages, hams, frankfurters and lunch meats- which account for about a third of the total market. One machine, for example, can now grind out 30,000 hot dogs an hour, all of a uniform weight and length for better cost control. Another, guided by computer punch cards, can chop up huge chunks of meat...