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...conversion were spiritual. He invited Franciscan and Jesuit preachers to conduct Billy Graham-style crusades on Milan's streets, and in a city with more than 1,000 churches, added at least ten each year -primarily in the new suburbs. For Montini, the missionary task was to conquer through Christian love those "unhappy ones who gather behind Marx," to reassure them that, as Jesus "still loves them strongly, immensely, divinely," so the church supports "the profound need for a new and worthwhile life that is hidden in their souls...
...recent economic slump (though few who leave are unemployed). But the biggest single reason for the exodus seems simply to be that the young and the talented feel restive and repressed in today's diminished Britain. For them, as for their ancestors who set out to conquer an empire, opportunity is a ship that leaves Southampton...
James characteristically displayed more interest in the pedagogical significance of his theory than in confirmation by precise, quantitative methods. "There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have experience know: if we wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies in ourselves, we must assiduously, and in the first instance cold-bloodedly, go through the out-ward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. The reward of persistency will infallibly come in the fading out of the sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth...
...nature of things that government and the press should often be at odds," said Brucker, particularly when the government is engaged in a Cold War with a clever, secretive enemy. "Even so, we hold in our hands the weapon with which to conquer managed news. It is the same weapon that has always won against earlier attempts to conceal and manipulate. What is that weapon? It is the newspaper reporter...
Littlejohn rambles on in this vein for ten tedious pages. The reader, however, can conquer the tedium by letting his mind wander and try to guess whose style Littlejohn is trying to imitate...