Word: hereticism
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A heretic's trip to China
Calvin's dictates have personal consequences: his sister-in-law is banished for adultery, his stepdaughter jailed for fornication. "I have found it to be true," observes a friend, "that men who know what is best for society are unable to cope with their families." Some of Calvin'...
But he was stubborn on other scientific issues. As he admitted in his later years: "I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. In Princeton, they consider me an old fool." He had earned this new reputation by his continued objections to what had become the...
Running the offenses are young quarterbacks who are not afraid of carrying the ball themselves. The league that once considered Fran Tarkenton a heretic for deserting his protective pocket of blockers now boasts quarterbacks who routinely gallop upfield. New England's Steve Grogan fancies the end run; Baltimore'...
Off-camera he may not seem the type, but on-camera Richard Burton cuts a fine figure as a priest. After playing a man of the cloth on a devilish mission in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Burton has once again put on his cleric's collar, in Absolution. This...