Word: calvinism
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...record is just as uneven in areas other than national security. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover have been castigated by historians for watching the signs of looming economic chaos in the 1920s and failing to take action that might have helped control the damage. The entire roster of modern problems-central-city decay, environmental pollution, civil rights conflict-could be seen approaching, but no President really moved to head them...
There, he joined fellow sophomore Pat Smith, who has apparently taken over for the Crimson's star of a year ago, point guard Calvin Dixon, who graduated last June...
...Calvin, not Luther, who created a theology for Luther's politics, controversial then and now, was his opposition to the bloody Peasants' War of 1525. The insurgents thought they were applying Luther's ideas but he urged rulers to crush the revolt: "Let whoever can, stab, strike, kill." Support of the rulers was vital for the Reformation, but Luther loathed violent rebellion and anarchy in any case...
Returning for Yale are Calvin Hill, who went on to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and Brian Dowling, Yale's star quarterback, who also played in the NFL and became the model for Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury character...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who dismissed Calvin Coolidge as a Vermont hayseed - a view based in part on the writing of William Allen White, the Emporia (Kansas, that is) sage- is now being challenged by Thomas B. Silver of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Coolidge, claims Silver, may have understood his times well, and, besides, his famous line, "The business of America is business," happens to be true...