Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Calvin Coolidge said: "Any well-dressed man can kill the President if he is willing to give up his own life...
...Again. The whole caper is recycled. Poitier and Cosby are hauled back to New Orleans by Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and his boys, who feel they got bilked and want to work the same ploy on a rival gambler named Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Now this is not a movie with jokes to spare. By the time Poitier and Cosby have rerun their plot, the meager supply has been totally exhausted. So has the audience...
...regional or personal quirks. His urbane performance gives no clues that he is a Texan. Understated and restrained, he manages to conceal much of the inner man from public view. Says a longtime associate: "Bentsen is one of the hardest people in public life to get to know." Adds Calvin Guest, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party: "The problem is to communicate his great leadership ability. Groups he has spoken to often go away without understanding what he really said...
Offense is the big question mark, with most of the awesome running attack gone. But if Carm Cozza can find a running back in the Yale tradition of Calvin Hill, Dick Jauron, and Rudy Green, and come up with a quarterback to hit excellent receiver Gary Fencik, the Blue will again challenge for the title...
...Calvin Coolidge, the champion of small spending and small Government, is the warmed-over toast of Washington's summer season. At dinner parties, his pithy sayings ("The business of America is business") are served up as wisdom for this time. Around July 4, television and newspaper commentators noted rather affectionately that it was Cal's birthday (1872) and we might well take a lesson from his penny-pinching. That is quite a comeback for a man whose previous pinnacle of acclaim came when Writer Dorothy Parker, on being told he was dead, asked: "How can they tell...