Sentences with phrase «great cultural transformation»

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Instead, it represented a brilliant fusion of two of the great cultural tendencies of our day: the pressing of Hollywood celebrities into positions of cultural authority which gives them powerful influence far beyond their ability to hold a note or to learn a script; and the transformation of the serious and the sacred into the idioms of showbusiness.

The human race is in the midst of a great transition involving such an enormity and rapidity of change as to constitute a transformation as far - reaching in its implications as that earlier great evolutionary leap when biological man became cultural man.

Many writers, from Lyall Watson to Laurens van der Post, have pointed out that within such a suspect and partisan transformation, a production line is created that clones greater and more controlled quantities of wholesome democratic excellence, rather like a cultural crop.

It was one of the greatest periods of cultural transformation in African American history.