Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career takes off, Stoltzman is increasingly on the road, appearing with regional symphonies or with the TASHI Quartet, which he helped to organize. His ambition now is to do for the clarinet what Casals did for the cello: transform his instrument into an eloquent solo performer. "Last spring, when I was playing in Vancouver with the Amadeus Quartet," says Stoltzman, "a 90-year-old man came backstage and said, 'That's the first time the clarinet ever sounded human to me.' That's what I want-to make music that will liberate people." - Annalyn Swan
...resplendent in a black velvet suit, cape and top hat. First Novelist Tova Reich's glancing Swiftian wit never flags. She introduces one Rabbi Leon Lieb, who owns a chain of nursing homes and uses cajolery, threats and his-and-her fox cloaks as he obsessively tries to transform his son-in-law into a proper husband. But the newlyweds insist on going their own comic way: secreting a poet's mad mother in one of the nursing homes, serving as interior decorators to a psychotherapist who conducts his sessions in coffins. When Sudah renounces art for yoga...
Even so, American policymakers are under no illusion that Japan will be able to transform its system drastically at any time soon. Says Wolf: "In ten years, there may be a substantial change in the Japanese role in the world. But whether we will make it through that far without a good deal more irritation on both sides remains to be seen...
...group from working-class Liverpool burst into the American consciousness from the stage of TV's Ed Sullivan Show. For anyone who was young then−and many who were not−life palpably shifted gears. The Beatles quickly changed the face of popular culture: they soon helped transform fashions in everything from dress and manners to politics and sexuality. Certainly the upheavals of the '60s would have occurred without the Beatles, but the style of that chaotic era would not have been the same. The decade rocked, and at times exploded, to the Beatles' galvanizing beat...
Take the so-called Southern mystique. Long ago it became a journalistic catch-all to account for quirky folkways. It is currently a favorite of reporters straining to analyze the new presidency or transform the lackluster little Plains into a mecca of color...