Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horn Blowing. True fans need no convincing. They can read Five Seasons for remembrances of games, pennant races and World Series past, for another chance to think about their beloved sport under the tutelage of an expert. Yet Angell's passion for baseball is enough to convert the heathen. Millions of casual TV viewers saw Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk's extra-inning home run in the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. Angell's account goes beyond the heroics on the field. He imagines people all over New England receiving the news-"jumping...
...like a color version of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. A fragile, handsome young priest just out of seminary has taken on the parish of a provincial town full of peasant atheists. He wants to believe that by the strength of his fervent faith alone he will convert even the most cynical, irreverent non-believers. His fasting, like that of the priest in Bresson's film, makes him weaker and weaker; but instead of succumbing to tuberculosis, he develops amnesia. There the parallels end. The rest of the movie carries him through an idyllic romance with a flower...
Utility executives will concentrate on knocking out Carter's proposal to force them to install expensive "scrubbers" in their plants to remove harmful chemicals from coal smoke. Their argument: if they have to convert from oil and natural gas to coal as completely as Carter wants, installation of scrubbers would add $7 billion to their costs through 1985, and that would have to be passed on in higher electricity rates to users. Coal lobbyists will join the attack: they fear that if power plants are forced to install scrubbers, they will either drag their feet as long as possible...
...There's not choice but to be trained in the arts of community survival," he writes. If people begin on the street where they live to convert moral resistance into concrete legal and political activity, they also prepare themselves to recognize and hopefully thwart the Vietnams when they begin...
Charo and Kahn want to see Brew become a social center for the Quad and a magnet for potential Quad residents. Charo said the idea for the coffeehouse came from her long-standing desire to convert Hilles into a student center, and her more recent dissatisfaction with the Fox housing plan. With the help of Susan W. Lewis, assistant Dean of Freshmen, Charo and Kahn obtained funds from the Quad houses and the University, bought mugs and supplies, and opened the non-profit Brew. Give...