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...founded the University of Geneva in 1559, and its students helped make the explicit, consistent, theological structure of Calvinism into the most influential and powerful Reformation church in Europe. Chief addition of Calvin to Luther's doctrine of justification by faith was the emphasis upon man's utter helplessness before an awesome and all-powerful God who had predetermined until the end of time who would be saved by His grace and who would be left to the eternal damnation all men deserved. In his doctrine of the Communion, Calvin differed from Luther and the Catholics in teaching...
Cooper's "The Deerslayer" ("Utter-ably but unprintable dull...
...copy of a movie magazine called Film India, picked up by Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...
...about gambling in the St. Louis area. As they arrived, it quickly became evident that all of them were also suffering from a companion disease which one curbstone diagnostician described as Kefauveritis-"characterized by a clammy feeling, excessive perspiration, forgetfulness, a sinking sensation in the stomach and inability to utter more than a few inaudible sounds...
Time marches on. Last week Manhattanites were looking over a review of 40 years of abstract art with utter calm. Pictures by such oldtimers as John Marin, Lyonel Feininger and Joseph Stella-which once titillated the advance guard and horrified the public-now seemed familiar, almost conservative...