Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Associate Editor Paul Gray, who wrote the cover story from Hillenbrand's reports and those of Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov, was also impressed by Kirkland's candor and forthright approach when they met for an interview in her teacher's studio. A recent convert to the world of dance, Gray confessed he had indulged in a few Walter Mitty fantasies of joining her onstage. With that, she reached down and pulled off his left shoe. "Good extension," she judged as she tugged at Gray's foot while the nonplused writer tried to stretch...
Other tax-exempt organizations may also purchase private homes and convert them into dormitories, they added...
...most intractable opponents of the weed. "I've noticed when people stop smoking," he says, "that it's part of a calculated campaign of reform of the personality. They do it like a reformation in religious terms, and they feel that they have to convert others." A Tenafly, N.J., psychologist agrees, "It's not smoke that bothers them, it's people smoking...
...proud of the hours they spend staring straight ahead; a book about destroying the tube can be a nice assuager of guilt. And Mander, a former advertising and public relations agent who grew disenchanted with his meal ticket in the late 1960s, exhorts with all the zeal of the convert and enthusiasm of the initiate. He rattles on like a college freshman who has just been alerted to the difference between illusion and reality. In fact, Mander argues that TV created this difference: "Unlike ordinary life, in which whatever you see actually exists outside you before...
...largest bank, Citizens and Southern National (assets: $3.5 billion), quit in frustration. His reason: Comptroller of the Currency John G. Heimann, the chief U.S. banking regulator, had just forced C & S to reclassify as questionable an additional $11 million in loans, mostly on real estate. That will convert the skimpy $3.2 million profit that the bank reported for 1977 to a $7.8 million loss...