Word: calvinism
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...with fondness the laughs evoked by some of the remarks of past American Chief Executives [ESSAY, Nov. 24]. As a U.S. historian who focuses on the presidency, I found Rosenblatt's commentary downright hysterical until I got to the quote he attributed to Woodrow Wilson. In fact, it was Calvin Coolidge who said when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. It's worth noting that Silent Cal had a sense of humor so dry that Alice Roosevelt Longworth said he looked like he'd been weaned on a pickle. DAVE ESPOSITO State College...
...British journalist with whom he had that initial liaison sold the story of their affair to the tabloid News of the World in 1991). Lockwood's lawyer said Spencer had strung together as many as 12 love affairs. He was most recently linked to the fashion editor and former Calvin Klein model Josie Borain...
...arrived in the U.S. from Hong Kong in 1972 to study design. She stayed to work for Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene, then launched her own clothing line in the early 1980s. By 1988, however, she abandoned clothing design to concentrate on what seemed like an impossible artistic ambition: giving metal objects the look of some of the shifting and sinuous forms she saw in underwater visions while scuba diving. Somehow she brought it off: Lam can give steel the look of draped silk...
...quips used by the boxers fanatics, such as the phrase "tight whities." Surely those who prefer boxers embarrass themselves by resorting to such mudslinging tactics instead of engaging in responsible discourse. Men who prefer briefs argue that they prefer to let their body do the talking (please refer to Calvin Klein advertisements) as opposed to needing loud patterns on their undergarments...
...Maybe next to a reference to some extemporaneous ramblings he had delivered on the campaign trail--yet another version of what we speechwriters used to call his county-commissioner speech--I'd find a footnote by Michael Beschloss, who edited the tapes, saying, "Technically, this speech was written by Calvin Trillin, but, since what L.B.J. said bears absolutely no resemblance to the text, Trillin is not considered responsible for the war in Vietnam or any other national catastrophe...