Word: calvinists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saintly Pompadour. Mary Lee sailed for Europe in 1855, an outwardly demure 17-year-old determined to make her mark and spread her Calvinist faith. When she snagged the elderly Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, she planned a honeymoon of New Testament grandeur. The couple retraced St. Paul's path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux...
Berliners dubbed Mary a "Pompadour in saintly garb." Despite her status as a mistress, she insisted that Wilhelm's morals conform to her own Calvinist standards. First, his pornographic pictures had to go. In a little ceremony by the fireplace, the pair solemnly watched the vast collection consumed in flames; then over oranges and tea, Mary lectured Wilhelm on the duties of a Christian prince. Wilhelm was soon sending swords to friends with the inscription: "In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost." Under her badgering, he lent his name to her efforts to organize Berlin...
...highborn stole food at the Lord Lieutenant's parties, while the people seethed and periodically struck out. Ireland, too, suffered from the Queen's neglect as Scotland gained from her affection and her habit of spending all her summers at Balmoral. In Scotland's stern Calvinist circles, no one stole food at parties, but no one ate hot food on Sunday; and a widow, entering a theater for the first time in her life, suddenly saw a sign reading TO THE PIT, and raced frantically back to the pavement...
Hudson also brought a concentration on "religious consciousness"-the stern Calvinist doctrine that makes a minister duty-bound to remind members that they are sinners. In place of tranquilizing theology he gave sermons on "Who Owns Your Soul?" ("Is it an insurance company, a bank, a labor union or an industry?"), on "The Church in Our World" ("It neither disturbs nor comforts"), and on the pricklier passages of the Sermon on the Mount. "My contention," he says, "is that the Gospel applies not to 1st century man but to 20th century...
Died. Zoltan Tildy, 72, former Calvinist clergyman and last freely elected president of Hungary (1946-48) who, after years under Red house arrest, served briefly as Minister of State during the 1956 Hungarian revolt and for that went to prison until 1959; in Hungary...