Word: calvinistically
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...interesting that these paintings had such a market in a predominantly Calvinist country," she said. Prostitution was condoned in Holland, Van de Pol said, because the Dutch hoped it would protect other women from sailors visiting Amsterdam...
Callenbach began by looking at sewage. "I come from a long line of Calvinist Dutch preachers, and I knew that throwing all of this valuable organic material down the drain was just plain wrong." What he created for Ecotopia was the "stable-state system" -- recycling food wastes and sewage into fertilizer to grow more food. "Then I thought, any group of people sensible enough to get their act together in this way would clearly do a lot of other things differently. So I began to think of things like extruded- plastic houses and wood architecture. And I moved on gradually...
...poor and Calvinist upbringing (he was born at Clydebank in Scotland, brought to the U.S. at eleven) instilled a strict moral sense in Reston. As a young reporter covering Franklin Roosevelt he refused to join the "coterie of reporters who played cards with the President at night at Warm Springs" and then in the 1944 election failed to report his weakened health. Such dereliction shocked Reston and put him on guard against presidential intimacy. "In 40 years, I've only been in the living quarters of the White House five times," he says, and disapproves of Columnist George Will...
...strain of righteousness lies deep in the American character. As John Gunther wrote in Inside U.S.A., "Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea." That good idea combines a commitment to man's inalienable rights with the Calvinist belief in an ultimate moral right and sinful man's obligation to do good. These articles of faith, embodied in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution, literally govern our lives today. Meanwhile the compulsions to repent and punish sin remain just beneath the skin, erupting like fever blisters in times of stress and producing a rash...
...church. South Africa is officially a Christian state, and most Afrikaners take their Calvinist religion seriously. In the upcountry towns where Afrikanerdom still follows the old rules, Sunday is strictly a day for prayer and rest and for paternal readings from the leather-bound family Bible: no sports, no fishing, no television...