Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German sensibilities. Sometimes the men vie with each other in a heated trivia contest (who were the members of the Rinkydinks?). When the quartet collides with a Negro cab driver (Godfrey Cambridge), their debate rises to tidal proportions, only to unroil when the cabbie turns out to be a convert to Judaism. The mourners arrive late for the services and giggle derisively as a rabbi (Alan King) intones a gross caricature of a eulogy for the dead-before they finally discover that they have stumbled into the wrong funeral...
...styled dinner jacket worn over a collarless shirt with a red bandanna knotted around the throat. Francis Toscani, who designs Botany-brand suits for a Philadelphia clothing manufacturer, aimed for versatility: the pocket panels of his fitted lounging coat were attached by Velcro strips and could be removed to convert the coat into a short Eisenhower jacket, presumably enabling the wearer to rush from boudoir to battlefield...
...Harvard in 1936 that Galbraith first read John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and became an immediate convert. It was there that he met a clutch of Kennedys: Joe Jr., then a sophomore; young Jack, who was "gayer, more easygoing, less politically inclined"; and Joe Sr., whom he approvingly describes as a "real operator." And it was there that he met his future wife, Catherine ("Kitty") Atwater, a petite (5 ft. 4 in.), pretty Smith valedictorian who was studying comparative literature at Radcliffe. "I looked up and up," notes Kitty of their first encounter, "wondering...
...best way to convert a poor white or a Harvard student into a political activist is to show him that the anti-war movement offers valid alternatives to a tour in Vietnam. This is what draft resistance is all about...
...Lenin's hopes that Sorokin would convert to devout Bolshevism were disappointed, and he attacked Sorokin in Pravda, calling him "typical of the most implacable part of the Russian intelligentsia." In 1922, Sorokin was banished forever from Russia. He arrived in the United States several months later...