Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RICHARD and ELIZABETH BURTON, an older couple who have worked hard to convert themselves from stimulating theatricalities into citizens as solid, square-cut and clunky as the diamonds they collect. LEONARD BERNSTEIN, whose indisputable composing and conducting talents are so often obscured by his passion for lecturing audiences about the mystical significance of certain quarter notes. JOSEPH ALSOP, a columnist who has so often predicted U.S. victory in Indochina that it may come as a letdown to his readers if it actually occurs...
Part of the time he was writing his survey, Booker shared quarters with another ex-Neophiliac-and Christianity's prickliest recent convert-Malcolm Muggeridge. The spirit may have been catching. For Booker ends up, rather to his own surprise, preaching a sort of Jungian Christianity. Sitting amid the double rubble-first of the Establishment and now of the anti-Establishment -he looks at all the broken pieces and vainly yearns for some master myth to help put everything together again...
...American foreigner attempting to convert anti-American Americans, Leopold Tyrmand has had remarkably grim grounds for comparison. He arrived here from Poland at age 45, after living through some of the worst experiences that Western civilization has had to offer. He survived stints in Russian and German prisons in World War II, and for a time was a member of the underground. He was equally opposed to the Communist takeover of Poland at the end of the war, and in his position as a popular novelist and journalist, he became one of the most outspoken opponents of the Gomulka regime...
Friedrich tells the old episodes in new detail and also offers some that are not widely known. A Curtis consultant suggests that the Post convert scripts of TV's Bonanza series into short stories because of their "proven popularity." To save on paper, the Post is shaved in 1966 by one-eighth or an inch along the top and bottom and one-sixteenth along the sides. Ackerman, faced with the possible loss of $400,000 in Ford Motor Co. advertising, suddenly tells the Ford representative: "You know, I really can't understand why you'd take...
Doubts Dispelled. Until recently, radio telescopes were not designed to pick up such high frequencies, but the Bell researchers-Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson and Keith Jefferts-had some timely aid: a newly developed telephone transmission device that can convert frequencies in the multibillion-hertz range into more easily detectable radio frequencies of about 100 million hertz. After adapting this device to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 36-ft. dish antenna at Arizona's Kitt Peak, the Bell scientists aimed the radio telescope at the distant Orion Nebula, a region of glowing gases more than 1,600 light...