Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth were not religious but political. Far more significant, however, is the difference between persecution by the churches of the Reformation and death for heresy. Thomas Cranmer protested against faith by compulsion, and there was a storm of protest in Protestant churches against Calvin's part in the burning of Servetus. We have to bear the burdens of our history but we also have to make distinctions. (THE REV.) JUNIUS J. MARTIN Christ Church, Frederica Saint Simons Island...
...once complained: "Oh, if only Taft knew the joys of leadership!" Woodrow Wilson was dogmatic, inscrutably secretive and of limited vitality. His mind was second rate and his style of writing "synthetic Burke."¶ Calvin Coolidge was "arid," a kind of puritan, the sort of man who would make a speech "about George Washington as a businessman...
...campaign was fought out against a background of widespread public contentment with U.S. history's most remarkable stretch of prosperity-prosperity for which the Republicans doggedly claimed credit. From 1921 to the end of 1928, under Republican Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, real per capita national income had climbed by a heady 30%.*In June 1928 the Republican Convention in Kansas City chose a nominee who seemed superbly equipped to carry on the Republican prosperity: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover, 53, a self-made, wealthy, Iowa-born engineer who was the most admired member of Coolidge...
Deification of the Scriptures. Like many another Protestant of his generation, 65-year-old Theologian Niebuhr reacted against the liberalism which ignored church tradition and turned back instead to giants of the past-Jonathan Edwards. Pascal, Luther, Calvin, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine. And while he considered the reform of culture one of Christianity's great responsibilities (to which Brother Reinhold was especially called), the reform of the church itself was his own special vocation. "As a convinced Protestant (not an anti-Catholic) who saw the sovereignty of God usurped by the spirit of capitalism and of nationalism, I felt...
...doctor tries to educate people to live," says Calvin Hastings Plimpton, 41, assistant dean of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The sentiment sounded good to Massachusetts lively little (1,000 students) Amherst College. Last week Amherst named Alumnus ('39) Plimpton as its long-sought successor to able President Charles W. Cole, 54, who leaves this June after 14 good years to become vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation...