Word: calvinism
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...John Calvin never met Martin Luther. Over the centuries, the doctrinal heirs of the two great reformers have often seemed to interpret this happenstance of history as a command to avoid spiritual alliances. But the new spirit of ecumenicism is changing all that. For the first time in U.S. history, 25 leading churchmen from all of North America's major Lutheran and Reformed (chiefly Presbyterian) churches gathered a fortnight ago for a serious dialogue on the theologies of these two traditions of the Protestant faith...
...receptions before state dinners and now used mainly for ladies' teas. Its walls and silk draperies are a bright magenta trimmed in gold, setting off the portraits of eleven past U.S. Presidents. Thomas Jefferson has the place of honor over the mantel, taking the place of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and her pet collie...
...Santo Domingo crowds hopefully awaited the return of U.S. Navy warships, which once before guaranteed the republic's budding democracy. But in Washington, with the Punta del Este meeting on Cuba about to begin, President Kennedy decided on less conspicuous muscle flexing. U.S. Charge d'Affaires John Calvin Hill Jr., who was in Washington to advise on resuming help to the Dominicans, was sent back to his post with orders to put pressure on Rodriguez Echavarria...
...marbled La Fortaleza palace, with its trickling fountains, croaking tree frogs and nightblooming hibiscus, on the moonlit Bay of San Juan. Before dinner, in one more demonstration of a President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican Republic's continuing unrest, was ordered back to Santo Domingo on the double at the briefing's end. The Kennedys slept the night...
...swollen bureaucracy' as among the triumphs of Karl Marx, and decried, on another occasion, new governmental 'paternalism and socialism.' I was comforted when reading this very familiar language to note that I was in very good company. For the first attack I quoted was on Calvin Coolidge and the second on Herbert Hoover...