Word: calvinistically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace picks up slightly as Scott leaves Michigan to search for his daughter. One might expect the urgency of the street to break through the tough, austere, Calvinist exterior of the man, but Scott slogs dully through whore houses, unmoved except by frustration...
...Afrikaners have long believed that their nation struck a special covenant with God ordaining them to preserve a Christian civilization. South Africa is, in a sense, the last Protestant theocracy on earth. In a country where American-style separation of church and state is as foreign as interracial marriage, Calvinist piety pervades schoolroom and board room...
...Council of Churches quit in 1961 over W.C.C. criticism of South African racial policies. The dominant Afrikaans church this year cut its last direct link with Protestantism in Holland over support there for W.C.C. grants to African revolutionaries. The only remaining international tie is with a group of orthodox Calvinist churches. Now relations with the nonwhite Reformed churches within South Africa are deteriorating...
Scotty Reston of the New York Times overrated? This seems a melancholy assessment to those many who have long regarded him as Washington's ablest journalist-the role model of an aggressive competitor and fair reporter, with great sources, literate style and Calvinist integrity. The Washingtonian quotes one Reston colleague: "His problem is over-access. He gets to see people others can't see and he believes them and blows their horn." But surely, to be able to quote Carter's or Kissinger's private comment accurately is to provide valuable information. Reston's real...
...year-old gunpowder manufacturer concerned about the "decay of virtue, public and private," began a school with a noble idea: to teach ''the great end and real business of living." The school itself was more humble: 13 students, ages six to 30, enrolled under the tutelage of Calvinist Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson in a converted carpenter's shop in Andover, Mass. "On Monday the scholars recite what they can remember of the sermons heard on the Lord's day previous," wrote Pearson in 1780. "On Saturday the bills are paid and the punishments administered...