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...with “pride” is a concert that allows me to say, “well, it was fun enough, but more importantly, I would have regretted it if I hadn’t gone.”So, am I just doing some kind of Calvinist delayed-gratification guilt-trip principle by going to these things? Why am I still compelled, despite your rational logic? What sort of beast am I? Henry: Beasts of burden. That’s right, draft animals, kosher hunks of meat with cloven hooves and mouthfuls of cud. Together...
From his birthplace in Calvinist Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau migrated toward the hub of Enlightenment-era intellectual activity in Paris. Now, in a new biography, Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch returns Rousseau to center stage, where he belongs. Like a swift alpine stream, Damrosch’s writing is as enchanting as it is effortless. The biography is not only a pleasant read, but a welcome addition to bookshelves. Damrosch likes to note that this is the first single-volume Rousseau biography to be written in English. In an interview with The Crimson, Damrosch characterizes the only other...
...difficult for us to extricate ourselves from the idealistic Harvard bubble, to realize that an often imperfect world exists outside of our ivy-covered walls. To have such degrading, illegal—and, yes, kind of hilarious—behavior going on is a shock to our post-Calvinist, post-modern, post-feminist ideals. I also get the sense that you harbor some tacit guilt for supporting this illegal trade. Your dollars were used, maybe not for the act(ion), but certainly for the scissors. Moreover, you haven’t just hurt yourself, you’ve hurt your...
...white-dominated South Africa a stern Dutch Calvinist concept of law-and-order still holds sway. But suddenly many of the country's segregated black townships are becoming ungovernable. After a brief period of relative calm in June, violence is again on the rise in the black residential areas, with outbursts being reported every day. Last week 13 blacks were killed in the Johannesburg area alone, both by police and by other blacks. In one 24-hour period, 23 violent incidents were reported. Throughout the racially divided country there were fire bombings and grenade attacks in black townships almost every...
Like their English-speaking compatriots, the Afrikaners share an unresolved dilemma: how to prepare their country for the future. The Afrikaners in particular are frozen in a time frame by their dour Calvinist faith and their history. Immigrants who first arrived from Europe almost 350 years ago, they are most conscious of the fact that, unlike the former colonialists of the Gold Coast or Mozambique, they have no place to go back to. Out of hand they reject all talk of one man, one vote, maintaining that it would be "one man, one vote, one time," and then black tyranny...