Word: calvinists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes who seem to be sniffing their gloomy way toward the ultimate one-liner: "All flesh is as grass." Or "Id is not just another big word." Or maybe: "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." The perfect allegorical hero for De Vries might be a Dutch Calvinist furniture mover from Chicago (like De Vries' father), carrying the world on his shoulders-especially the heavy end with the lode of guilt...
When Exeter was first opened by Calvinist Banker John Phillips, the school took in just about anyone and aimed at "promoting piety and virtue." Now only one out of every four students who apply gets in, though the school actively recruits low-income students and gives out more than $1 million a year in scholarships. Exeter, says Admissions Director John Herney, is looking for brains plus something more. It turns down a number of applicants with high scores. "We are looking for kids who have a certain contagion to their excitement about learning." During a word association test one applicant...
Although director Paul Verhoeven (Soldier of Orange) has a certified hit with Spetters in his native Netherlands, this Dutch version of Saturday Night Fever would have to cross many cultural barriers to be accessible to American youth. Riding motorbikes with glee, munching french fries and mustard, and wrangling with Calvinist consciences, the Spetters (translated Aces) are rebellious youth who "live like there's no tomorrow." The soundtrack consists of second-rate juke box numbers from the Johnny Rotten timevault, but it is probably the flaunted flesh in Spetters which has made it a box office success. There are masturbations, erections...
...steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With sin and guilt suspended, the book lacks the touch of tragic relief that has made De Vries a top banana of the Calvinist comedy hour...
SPEAKING with the tepid fervor of a Calvinist who has repressed even the heat of his Puritanism, President Carter last Friday solemnly painted his own vision of how the nation can at last conquer inflation and recapture past economic glory. It is a narrow vision, with no bold initiatives to harness the energy and resources of the American people. Instead, it demands they submit passively to "pain" and "discipline." Fifteen times those dolorous syllables rolled from the President's pursed lips...