Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to convert thrift into greed instantly, and makes it possible for all of us to buy things we don't need with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like...
...some blacks because of its denunciation of the evils of white society and its promise of a better life for individuals who strictly follow its commands. The Hanafis consider themselves more orthodox than the Black Muslims, now called Bilalians, whom they dismiss as political exploiters. The most famous Hanafi convert is Los Angeles Laker Basketball Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who financed the purchase of a Washington house as Hanafi headquarters...
...they sure don't go together," Boston Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa said a week ago before a packed auditorium in Tanglewood, Mass. Tanglewood, in the Berkshires, is the summer home of the Boston Symphony and the state is planning to establish a medium security prison there. The proposal to convert a vacant Jesuit seminary near Tanglewood into a facility for 260 prisoners has met vociferous opposition from townspeople, area business and Symphony players who view the intense security and the omnipresent barbed wire that would accompany the prison establishment as threatening...
...that people can "reserve the right to criticize the actions which these beliefs cause. There is a difference between faith and belief and knowledge." Clark said the Constitution does not permit murder, even if part of a person's religious beliefs. He said that it is likewise unjustified to convert others who are unwilling or unknowing, simple because the prosyletizers "believe they are right." Clark also noted that the rapid change one goes through during the conversion process is detrimental to mental health...
...French party, too, still has among its top leadership men who were once staunch Stalinists. Marchais himself is a new (and in some quarters suspect) convert to the more liberal tenets of Euro-Communism. The French Communists were stung by an article in the Soviet Party organ Pravda blasting their participation in a Paris rally called to support political prisoners in the Soviet Union. In Madrid, Marchais was not about to raise Russian hackles again. Said he rather lamely: "We think that the three parties do not have the right to make a collective condemnation of some parties." That left...