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...Calvin J. Kantor, who begins work February 6, will be responsible for supervising Harvard's approximately 90 security guards. In addition, Kantor, 57, will be charged with restructuring the unit to improve communication between guards and their supervisors...
...Santa Clause, Allen is another all-American befuddled Dad. He plays Scott Calvin, a divorced father who is having trouble communicating with his young son -- until, on Christmas Eve, Santa falls off his roof, and Scott is pressed into finishing the gift-delivery chores. It turns out he is expected to give up his former identity and become Santa for good; over the next few months, he grows fat and acquires white whiskers and white hair. (Is this a Christmas fantasy or a horror film?) Scott eventually reconciles to the idea of spending his declining years at the North Pole...
...film is full of tableaux of talking heads filmed against lush backdrops, uttering French-film fortune-cookie phrases like "Love equals prayer. Wrapping one's arm around someone, and clasping hands, is like praying," or "Resign one's self to God's will, resign to being loved." Calvin Klein's Obsession, anyone...
Allen, on the other hand, is obliged to play a man named Scott Calvin, a hard-charging, fast-rising toy-company executive who is pressed into service as a substitute St. Nick in circumstances at once too complicated and too stupid to explain. He finds to his dismay that the job is his for all eternity (that -- Get it? -- is the Santa clause buried in some fine print he didn't get a chance to read), and he is understandably skeptical about whether taking over operations at the North Pole is a great career move. To achieve a happy resolution...
With regard to athletic ineptitude, Harvard is not alone, but together with the rest of the Ivies. The Yale Bowl, which once filled to watch the likes of its 1969 team of Brian Dowling of Doonesbury fame and Calvin Hill, the future Dallas Cowboy All-Pro, never fills for football games...