Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as Sukarno's opponents had predicted, the Communists began to convert presidential smiles into the hard currency of power. In the first of a series of local elections, Indonesia's capital city of Djakarta (pop. 4,000,000) voted in a new municipal council. Two years ago, in Indonesia's first general election, the Communists ran a poor fourth in Djakarta. This time, trading on Sukarno's almost mystic hold over the Indonesian masses, the Reds increased their vote from 96,000 to 135,000, ran second only to the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party...
...them, Author Zilliacus has an encouraging message: the love that really matters is not that between men and women, but the love of God. A Roman Catholic convert, she also looses repeated salvos against the materialism of her upbringing. In abandoning Marxism, she has unfortunately retained the hectoring manner of Marxist argument: "You're afraid of the fact that pain is an inevitable adjunct of life, for man as he is at the moment. That fear even leads you to deny the very existence of God Himself. Oh, you don't have to explain. I was brought...
...Murray suggests the example of Origen, who was the first man to devise a truly Christian education, that is, an education which tried to subsume all knowledge into the Christian Revelation. Origen felt that only the man who had mastered all the intricacies of Hellenic thought could hope to convert Alexandria. And so he set to work to incorporate the rationalism, pluralism, secularism, the skeptical positivistic tradition which emphasized what men knew over what he did not know, the world of Alexandria's Academy and Library, the anomic world of hedonistic despair about which we have been complaining since...
...paying farmers to reduce production, with the hope that after 1959 surpluses would be gone, and farmers could get back to a free market. In its favor were plausible arguments about conserving the soil, preventing erosion, etc. But even before the law was passed, politicians went to work to convert the bank into an election-year bonanza. Benson did not v/ant to begin the bank until 1957, but Congress, its eyes on November, ordered him to start dishing out the millions in 1956. The result was that the Government paid out some $260 million last year to farmers to take...
Foot-Washing Convert. Not even the uproarious Arkansas political meetings of the day were larks for John McClellan. His political favorite was Governor Jeff Davis,† an imposing figure in a Prince Albert coat of Confederate grey, whose platform was simple: "I am a hard-shell Baptist in religion. I believe in foot-washing, saving your seed potatoes and paying your honest debts." Invective .ran high in Arkansas politics, and little John McClellan had no way of telling the campaign flourish from the mortal insult. He took everything with deadly seriousness, spent sleepless nights after his heroes were attacked, blazingly...