Word: sterner
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...word pictures of hell. Edwards and his followers did much to erode Calvinist determinism by interpreting Adam's fall as not laying irremediable guilt upon man, but only an inclination to sin. After the Revolutionary War, it was the "Old School" and the "New School," which subordinated the sterner tenets of the reformed faith to the idea of God's love. The liberalizers won out in the '20s in a battle in which the conservatives began calling themselves fundamentalists...
Overseas, there is widespread concern. The Times Literary Supplement has warned stiffly, if somewhat forlornly, that "Atropos must be left in no doubt that the snap of these abhorred shears will be disagreeably audible in all seven continents." But Paul H. Buck is made of sterner stuff, and his Annual Report for 1959-60 echoes the language of that awesome moralist, Samuel Johnson ("The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time"). "Careful assessment of the Library's needs," Buck writes tonelessly, "indicated that other calls upon unrestricted money deserved a higher priority...
...Upanishads, nonviolence (ahimsa) became one of the five moral virtues. Gautama Buddha (500 B.C.) preached the impracticality of selfishness and hatred, saying that "hatreds are not quenched by hatred. Hatreds are quenched by love." Side by side with Buddhism in the 6th century B.C. came the similar, if sterner, ethics of Jainism, which held that because "all beings hate pains," the "quintessence of wisdom is not to kill anything...
...only sure way to control blood cholesterol effectively, says Keys, is to reduce fat calories in the average U.S. diet by more than one-third (from 40% to 15% of total calories), and take an even sterner cut (from 17% to 4% of total calories) in saturated fats. He also warns against confusing the blood cholesterol level with cholesterol actually deposited in the arteries. No known diet will remove deposited cholesterol, and the object of all diets is only to keep deposits from growing to the point that they cut off the heart's blood supply...
...committee members agreed that bootlegging is on the increase and "at least in urban areas" prohibition has failed. None of this, however, deterred Minister of State (and noted dry) Balwant Datar, who insisted any suggestion of relaxation or repeal was a "counsel of despair." Instead, Datar called for sterner laws and more rigorous enforcement, and in a final example of righteousness run riot, urged that in all trials involving prohibition violatiors "the burden of proof be shifted from the state to the accused...