Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theological tradition." Within the council, the same complaint comes from Eastern Orthodox members, even some from Communist East Europe who naturally like the W.C.C. political line. Then there are Protestants who favor the conservative Gospel preached by Billy Graham (see story below) and argue that the W.C.C. wants to convert the world politically, not spiritually. The Nairobi meeting will likely have to face whether these criticisms have merit. The mood is hard to figure. Three-fourths of the W.C.C. staff and 80% of the delegates have never attended an Assembly before...
Unitarians never wanted to convert people and Harvard didn't end up a backwater denominational school. This is old history except if there comes a day when Jews or Mormons or atheists feel uncomfortable, then Unitarians won't feel comfortable either...
...that "at best, reporters, including Woodward and Bernstein, only leaked elements of the prosecutors' case to the public in advance of the trial." Of the New York Times's version of the Pentagon Papers, he says, "Substantial revisions in the history were made on major points" in order to convert what was in fact a bureaucratic study into a journalistic expose. This theme runs through Between Fact and Fiction: Because of the nature of the press; because journalists work with deadlines, limited space and biased sources, they can never discover--or disclose--the real truth...
Around the country, hundreds of parents have been driven to near hysteria by changes in their convert children's behavior and by reports of brainwashing. They are filing suits and banding into anti-Moon groups. Some parents have even resorted to abduction. In many cases they use "Deprogrammer" Ted Patrick, who for a fee conducts counter brain washing of cultists...
Dick Netzer, a member of board of directors of MAC, and dean of New York University's graduate school of public administration, told a standing-room only audience in Emerson Hall that failure to provide such a loan guarantee "would convert state and municipal bonds into assets with a real degree of risk," causing many "risk-averters" to leave the bond market, depressing bond sales...