Word: convert
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True Art. A few years later, Mondrian became an enthusiastic convert to Theosophy; he was very much struck by Philosopher Rudolf Steiner's belief that ''occult influences . . . can be awakened by devotional religious feelings, true art, music." But what was "true" art? Mondrian was sure that art got truer to the extent that it provoked meditation and devotion. "In aesthetic contemplation," he wrote, "the individual is pushed to the background, and the universal appears. The deepest purpose of painting has always been to give concrete existence, through color and line, to this universal which appears in contemplation...
Bilingual Buttonholing. The next day the Americans fanned out to assignments in 17 cities. In Alicante, 21 of them were greeted by a band, a crowd of 500 and the local Baptist pastor, a convert from Catholicism, who remembered clearly the bitterness of discrimination against Protestants. Said he: "I have not been so nervous since my wedding day." In every city, the meetings drew hundreds of curious Spaniards. The Americans also tried some door-to-door buttonholing, aided by bilingual dictionaries. In Lerida, the local radio broadcast spot commercials for the crusade 14 times daily, and in Cordova, the Baptists...
While they were joined together to convert the non-Baptist Spaniards, the two battalions of missionaries were also learning something about each other. The Spaniards were bewildered at first by the sobbing, arm-flailing exhortations imported from Dixie. For their part, the Texans were embarrassed by the thimble-size glasses of wine passed out during the Spanish Baptists' Holy Supper. Teetotalers, they take grape juice...
...prison authorities a triple leverage. First, they allow the officials to keep the behavior of the majority of inmates under control. Second, they allow them to identify early prisoners who are developing the consciousness of resistance. Finally, they provide a means of arresting this process before the con can convert evolving consciousness into embarassing action...
Harvard's backfield stymied Dartmouth with repeated clutch saves before Buglioni at last was able to convert on a fluke goal in the last seconds of the first quarter...