Word: mathering
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...utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in the perfectibility of man. Cotton Mather, meet Thomas Jefferson. This contradictory combination bespeaks the sheer and sometimes hopelessly unrealistic determination to overcome any evil that cannot be ignored, the refusal to accept the status quo in the universe...
...eminently qualified for his subject. He was the creator and host of the 1981 eight-part PBS series The Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art, and its forthcoming sequel, American Visions. In addition, he is a two-time winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism...
Until the nineteenth century, when the Fourth of July caught on as a holiday, Commencement was the seasonal excuse for feasts and New England-style bacchanalia, much to the chagrin of past Harvard President Increase Mather...
...Harvard property took place in last 25 years on the banks Charles River. Spurred on by greater enrollments and new federal search money. University expense led, from 1958 to 1968, to the addition of a series of concrete and-glass undergraduate dorms like New Quincy, Leverett Towers, and Mather House...
...Mather House Senior Tutor Terry Shaller, a former expos instructor and author of the test, said a computer analyses revealed a strong correlation between low test scores and low grades in expos during the fall term...