Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference gives the electorate a chance to see how the Chief Executive responds to - or dodges - at least some of the moment's major issues. The fact that the President can and usually does exercise a great deal of control over these exchanges is hardly new. Calvin Coolidge, who insisted on getting written questions in advance, found one day that the reporters had all sent in the same tough query. He countered by making up a question to his liking and then answered...
...voice of the Stillman family also has been heard. In a meeting with Bok and Steiner, several family members expressed their opposition to the report's conclusions. But the family also includes one of the most vocal proponents of the project, Calvin W. Stillman '39. He wrote in a 1966 Black Rock Forest Report that he felt "the plant as planned constitutes no significant blight upon the natural beauty of Storm King and the Hudson River shorelines" and that he saw no reason why it should not be built...
...dominated by North American and Northern European members. Today it has 263 member churches in 90 countries. Four out of ten member churches are now in the Third World. At silver jubilee services in Geneva's austere medieval Cathedral of St. Pierre, the preacher who stood in John Calvin's pulpit was W.C.C. General Secretary Philip A. Potter, a West Indian Methodist and a black. When the cathedral organ was silent, Papa O'Yeah MacKenzie, a black drummer from Ghana who wore a leopard-skin jacket, played lively percussion solos...
...corrupted by the profits of interest. In ancient Greece, Aristotle condemned interest as "most unnatural," and early Christians deemed it sinful. Because Christians could not make interest-bearing loans in medieval Europe, borrowers turned largely to Jews. Only in the 16th century, after the Reformation and John Calvin's defense of interest under certain conditions, did lawmakers begin redefining usury as the collecting of "excessive" interest. In England, Henry VIII set an interest ceiling of 10%, which some U.S. mortgage lenders would like to see put into effect...
...only vocal proponent of the project in the family, Calvin W. Stillman '39, wrote in a 1966 Black Rock Forest Report that he felt "the plant as planned constitutes no significant blight upon the natural beauty of Storm King and the Hudson River shorelines," and saw no reason why it should not be built...