Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nominally a Baptist (her father left the Catholic Church as a young man), Sue Ingersoll became a convert to Catholicism 2½ years ago. Now Sue painstakingly undertook to explain to her former fellow Protestants that a Catholic "cannot be pushed around," is free to rely on his own conscience in matters outside "direct canonical concern." Said she: "Bishops, cardinals and even Popes may be subjected to criticism." Even excommunication is only "a denial of certain privileges, in much the same way that a teen-ager might be denied the use of the family car. He is, of course, still...
...seek out careers that do not conform to what is expected of them." Concluded Getzels and Jackson: "It is no less than a tragedy that in American education at all levels we fail to distinguish between our convergent and divergent talents-or, even worse, that we try to convert our divergent students into convergent students...
...tough back country, French hopes of creating a new Moslem spirit rise with each convert they win away from the rebel F.L.N.; no longer is Moslem support of the French confined to the docile, despised beni-oui-ouis (yes men). One village mayor switched sides abruptly after the brutal 1957 Melouza massacre by the F.L.N. Another convert was hardy Mohammed ben Chickh, only a year ago top sergeant in a crack F.L.N. commando outfit. Last September he rode into a French army post on a mule, explained he had grown disillusioned with...
Chanting Police. Its methods of recruitment are novel: believers go in relays to the house of a hoped-for convert and, day and night, chant the magic formula. Irate neighbors frequently call the police but are sometimes flabbergasted to find that the policemen often belong to Soka Gakkai too, and join their voices to the chanting. Often the unfortunate target will give up and become a member of Soka Gakkai just to get some sleep...
...Says Art Critic James Thrall Soby (who served on the selection committee ): "I think no fair-minded person can look at the present show and not realize that a spark has ignited our younger sculptors, whether they carve or cast their works, weld them or convert into estimable jewels the wry tiaras of the junkyard...