Word: calvinism
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...least twice a week, Calvin Bentsen sets out at daybreak to visit his rhinos...
When the Rev. Calvin Butts III of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church was asked by CBS about the attack, he spoke of "the examples that our children are faced with." Such as? "We've had Presidents resign, foreign Prime Ministers resign in disgrace. We've had Oliver North lie publicly on television . . . And many of our youngsters, across racial lines, see that and then...
...League players have actually gone on to be professional stars. The most notable Ivy League product is probably Yale's Calvin Hill, a standout for the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins...
...imagination on display here is Watterson's, not Calvin's. Watterson became an editorial cartoonist in Cincinnati after graduating from Kenyon College, and even then his cartoons had an element of the fantastic in them. He has shown a dozen worlds that Calvin inhabits, and often the joy in the strip comes from simply being on an alien planet with Calvin, instead of laughing at his wisecracks...
Like Walt Kelly's "Pogo," Watter-son's strip deals in aggregate humor, drawn from the characters more than the individual jokes. Reading "Calvin and Hobbes" in book form is much more fun and revealing than reading it day by day. And Yukon Ho! is a goldmine of a collection...