Word: convert
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...general chapter meeting in 1966. Citing a "new optimism" in theology, the document declares that "the saving invitation and power of God reach out to all men" even if they do not attain "explicit faith in Christ and his Church." The role of the Christian is not to convert everybody but to be an example: "A sign before nations . . . a sign to confront them with the challenge of God's love, to tell them of their own deepest selves, to purify and illumine their own deepest values...
...love for art in favor of the spontaneous and the impure, those who seek to destroy the university because it is the most fragile institution in American life, those who feed the war machine by whining self-indulgently when they could work to stop it, but Brustein will never convert them with name calling. Essentially this book is a cry of passion, but not an intellectual work. It may anger some and satisfy others, but it will appeal to prejudice, not the mind...
While they may be gaining, the reformers obviously still lack enough muscle to convert their ideas into policy. But they seem determined to keep trying, and with increasing prospects of future success. A committee chairman can no longer consider his post an irrevocable gift of the years. Conceded one veteran: "I wouldn't want to be the top man on my committee if my colleagues didn't want me there." As reform is measured in the House of Representatives, that is no small shift...
...middle of this week. A fleet of airplanes, 145 armored trucks and ten trunk railway lines-Britain's biggest convoy since World War II-will bring 6,000,000 checks, statements and credit documents from 14,500 banks throughout the country to London. There they will be converted into the new currency and shipped back to their place of origin. When the banks reopen next Monday, some 25 million accounts will be decimalized and up to date. Government departments, the stock exchange and subway system, as well as most big stores, will go decimal immediately on D Day. Other...
Unacceptable Union. Bethany's success helped convert the 141-bed Garfield Park Hospital, whose white patients had moved to more affluent areas. Garfield's board sought a merger with Bethany, which agreed on condition that the hospital open its doors to blacks from the neighborhood. The directors then merged the two institutions and appointed a white administrator, Vernon Showalter, 42, who had run Bethany since 1952. He firmly told Garfield's medical staff: "Black patients are the ones living in this community, and it's black patients who are going to end up in this hospital...