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...year-old boys is a question settled beyond doubt by this readable and authoritative biography: he was also, at the very least, the jaunty and flamboyant hero of an extraordinary life story. Frank McLynn's Robert Louis Stevenson (Random House; 567 pages; $30) describes a hardworking idler, a Scottish Calvinist who remade himself as a romantic and (four days out of any seven) a convincing bohemian, a smothered son who remained boyish all his short life, and an invalid who lived a life of arduous travel and physical adventure. (Another frail, literary, boyish adventurer of the time comes to mind...
Clinton's covenant talk mines a long American tradition, running right back to the Puritans. "It is of the nature and essence of every society," said John Winthrop, "to be knit together by some covenant." But what kind of covenant? Winthrop's was based on obedience to a Calvinist God, which is not something Clinton is likely to call on. This is where familiarity comes in, to provide the needed emotional glue...
...cannot yet claim such a quixotic position, though, because I have not worked very hard here, and I have engaged in soft living for which the Calvinist founders of Harvard would undoubtedly have had a remedy. Unlike some of my classmates, I still do not have the self-confidence to laugh at our school's old Puritan roots. In many ways, those roots reflect my own values...
Willem, influenced by the less strident opinions of his mother's family, began veering leftward while editing a Calvinist monthly, Word and Deed, in the mid-1950s. "I gained this insight that apartheid is not a just dispensation, not a solution for South Africa, not founded in morality, not common sense," he recalls. He began speaking out against such National Party measures for entrenching apartheid as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider...
...There is a very close connection between being a doctor and being a politician," Brundtland observed the next day, speaking in the earnest, faintly academic style that betrays both her Harvard degree and her Calvinist roots. "The doctor first tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society." Which may help explain why this physician offers such a radical prescription for running a country and restoring its health, and why last week's national elections, in which...