Word: converting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American gave their testimony about mysticism. A Call to What Is Vital (Macmillan; $2) is the last book written by Rufus M. Jones, a Quaker elder statesman until his death last June at 85. The Seven Storey Mountain* (Harcourt Brace; $3) is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, 33, a convert to Roman Catholicism who is now a Trappist monk in Kentucky...
...Publisher Collins will not be able to fill any new subscriptions (now $24 a year) until January. He figures that he can add another 10,000 in a year. Then, if as many readers clamor for Kaleidoscope as expected, he will have to decide whether or not to convert his trade magazine into a high-priced competitor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar...
...argument was over Author Greene's intention-and accomplishment. Greene is a Roman Catholic convert, with a convert's intensity: he recently voiced the hope that the Church may be driven underground, to find there a revival of spiritual force. Was his new book expounding a heresy or defending the faith? Had he made his "hero" a damned sinner or a shining saint-or merely a nice guy who didn't know how to get along with women? And what, exactly, did he mean by "the heart of the matter...
Kappler (who became a Roman Catholic convert just before the trial began) testified that he had refused his victims religious assistance "because we were pressed for time, and I know that people who are about to be executed always indulge in talking to the minister." At this the maddened courtroom audience, broke into howls of "Schweinehund!", and surged forward towards Kappler's bench. A muscle danced in his jaw and the saber scar on his left cheek blazed crimson as carabinieri forced the crowd back...
...protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers, sister Evangeline found the doors closed against her. She dashed around to the rear of the building, climbed the fire escape and appeared dramatically on the platform. She spoke, writes Author Wilson, "as seldom she has spoken before or since." The Salvationists (but not brother Ballington) were...