Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Calvin and Kirkland House...
Klingensmith discovered another passion sophomore year. After convincing the History Department to give him credit, he began trekking to the Divinity School for a course on Calvin. "I thought I knew something about Calvinism, and it seemed pretty abhorrent--beliefs in predestination, election, sovereignty." Despite extensive reading, Klingensmith ended the semester still convinced it was "rot. But I also realized that if it was rot, it was also very hard to answer, very well thought out. Over the summer I began to think on it, and realized it represented a very coherent and scripturally "accurate approach to religion...
...Communications, is the highest-paid corporate chief in the U.S. For his efforts, Ross last year pulled down an estimated $22.5 million in wages, benefits and the increased value of his stock. Meanwhile, Women's Wear Daily notes that the income figures of U.S. designers are scarcely scanty. Calvin Klein, 39, tops in bottoms, etc., will take $15 million off the rack this year, estimates WWD, and Ralph Lauren, 42, is close behind at $12 million. The money paid to college football coaches was also being checked out. Last week the Miami Herald reported that as the best-paid...
...former. He had dedicated himself to developmental economics for its challenge. "We had been taught, and we believed, there were no economic problems in the United States and similar countries. The economic problem here was to persuade the few Republican politicians, who still went to bed with pictures of Calvin Coolidge under them pillows, that Keynes was good for them and his theories would save capitalism, not destroy it." This carried him to India on sabbatical in the year 1967 1968 to espouse a disguised White Man's Burden...
...Calvin Simmons, 31, of the Oakland Symphony. When Oakland selected Simmons as its music director in 1979, it found a conductor of enormous potential, whose life has been in music ever since he was a boy chorister singing in San Francisco Opera productions. Simmons is constantly exploring the reaches of the orchestral repertory, programming unusual works such as Hoist's Hymn of Jesus and Bruchner's Mass No. 3. A dynamic opera conductor, he will lead Mozart's Cost Fan Tutte in June with the Opera Theater of St. Louis...