Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convert to Catholicism, I am constantly being faced with this question of tolerance. I hope His Holiness the Pope will see fit to issue a statement . . . clarifying and denying such allegations so that our Protestant friends and enemies may be satisfied and so that Roman Catholics themselves may have something definite to quote in their attempts to combat . . . the harm done by such words...
...Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat in Pratt, Kansas. In 1939, Scripps-Howard transferred him to the Houston Press. Overnight Carl Victor Little became a fanatic Texan, because "there's no one more zealous than a convert...
United We Stand. Convert Little's longest previous crusade was directed against Novelist Edna Ferber for daring to try to cut Texas down to midget size in Giant. Little turned out 39 columns about Novelist Ferber; in one, he offered to play host to an autographing party so that she could be publicly hanged ("The only new note in literary criticism ... in the last 30 years...
...over from the U.S. side, he argues, and new-type Indian leaders will emerge to invest it. But his idealistic son David thinks otherwise. Money, he believes, is not enough. India may be near to death hysically, but it is vibrant with religious vitality. The would-be missionary cannot convert Indians from behind a desk in Wall Street. He must live in their land and carry his faith to them. To his father's horror, David does just that...
...Worker draws a modern parallel: "Just as the cattle barons of the '70s, '80s and '90s sought to appropriate unto themselves the range of the public domain, so today, under the Eisenhower Administration, are the modern barons seeking to convert their grazing permits in national parks and other public areas to form a permanent tax-free title." But the main trouble: The film "tends to glorify individual-as opposed to collective-action...