Word: converting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white males are exclusively homosexual and that about two in five had "at least some" homosexual experience after puberty. Given Kinsey's naive sampling methods, the figures were almost certainly wrong. But chances are that growing permissiveness about homosexuality and a hedonistic attitude toward all sex have helped "convert" many people who might have repressed their inclinations in another time or place...
...standards be applied consistently and uniformly. For the confusion and uncertainty created by the present system also undermines the war effort. The seemingly irrational and arbitrary character of local board decisions turns tentative support into cautious opposition in the minds of students and provides ammunition for those who would convert the doubters into demonstrators...
...best innovations in education going on-and probably some of the worst," says Newcomer. In the city's Paradise Valley area, the new, low-slung $4,600,000 high school has open arches rather than doors in windowless rooms shaped in triangles, arcs and diamonds. Sliding partitions convert a classroom to a 250-student lecture hall...
...last platoon of the Nov. 27 antiwar protest march into Washington's Harrington Hotel. Later they found comfort in a plush $60-a-day suite in the Statler Hilton. In such surroundings, sprawled on couches and carpet, they held the first coeducational "soul session." One young convert, recalling with distaste an abrasive cry from some demonstrators as they marched around the White House-"Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many people did you kill today?"-suggested that the soul protester should take the long-suffering view of Lyndon's problems. Said he: "We've got to let the President...
...them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject his religion, his wife goes crazy with the heat, his small son dies of blackwater fever, and as the tragedy concludes he is hacked to pieces by the only important Niaruna who calls himself a convert...