The Tyrant Lizard King was transmuted into Barney.
In the entertainment world, "Beat" was transmuted into "beatnik," a word invented, in 1958, by the San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen.
It suggests, though, how much demoralizing struggle was transmuted into the comic deflections and chilly hurtle of the novels.
What happened to them in the middle and late sixties was a mysterious transfer of energy, in which disposable fame was transmuted into artistic power.
One memory, of sunlight pouring through a dragonfly's translucent wing, was transmuted into the crocheted wire sculptures for which she first became known.
It is little surprise that the rapidity with which liberal Weimar was transmuted into the Third Reich continues to astonish, and may well astonish always.
And at Mayfield Comprehensive (1955), the school's great bulk was transmuted into spaciousness by the arrangement of low blocks round grass courts.
However, one of Merton's best known contributions, the focused group interview (which later was transmuted into "focus groups"), was brought about by Lazarsfeld's insistence on developing well- articulated research methodologies.
At one point, a simple "yes" was transmuted into the word "peanuts," no less muddled than Charlie Brown's P.T.A. "It's a wonder that the Voder could talk at all," wrote Dudley in the Bell Technical Journal.
The Puritan goal to further reform the nation as a whole was transmuted into the more individualistic spiritual concerns of Pietism or else the more secular concerns of the Age of Reason.
"Golden Dreams" chronicles the postwar era during which the precious metal of California's natural endowments was transmuted into an economic and cultural nation-state.
