Word: calvin
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...score which was gutsy and fun to begin with. The 19-member troupe does far better as a whole pushing the decibel level to something just short of a primal scream than do any of the principals, some of whom seem completely inexperienced as vocalists. Of the main players, Calvin Wolk, as Berger, the macho ring leader, and Jeff Bercuvitz, as Claude, the occasionally ambivalent side kick, project the message of rejectionism and individuality most effectively. Larnett Son also belts out several impressive leads, including a soulful version of "Abie Baby," a cynical tribute to the author of the Emancipation...
NONFICTION: Dorothy Day, William D. Miller ∙ The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin ∙Poets in Their Youth, Eileen Simpson ∙ Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage, Geoffrey Skelton ∙Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate ∙Uncivil Liberties, Calvin Trillin...
UNCIVIL LIBERTIES by Calvin Trillin...
Squirreled away in his safe-deposit box, Calvin Trillin keeps a list of prominent novelists who once sported Nehru jackets. Occasionally, he will take out this list and peruse the names the way a stamp collector savors his Luxembourg misprints. That is precisely what readers ought to do with Trillin's essays in Uncivil Liberties, originally written for the Nation from...
...sovereignty of God is at the center of his Calvinism, Klingensmith says. "God chooses what he wants to do and does it, chooses who he wants to save and saves him. It is a sovereignty of grace, a sovereignty very much tempered by love, unconditional love." Calvinism, as practiced by its originator in Geneva, was the "preeminent social religion, and I've become more socially conscious from my reading of Calvin," he insists. "Pure social action is useful, and it gets a lot done. But without religion, speaking in eternal or ultimate terms, it will prove fruitless. Because the world...