Word: merrye
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IN the spring of 1627, the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth was scandalized when a rather different American named Thomas Morton decided to show the New World how to celebrate. At Merry Mount, which may have been America's first counterculture community, Morton erected a Maypole-80 feet of priapic...
The no was firm, but it was not, and could not have been, final. As Philosopher George Santayana, looking at the American Puritan through half-Spanish eyes, noted: "For the moment, it is certainly easier to suppress the wild impulses of our nature than to manifest them fitly, at the...
Merry Mount without Plymouth
PENN-BROWN: Cap'n Crunch and I spent twice as long flipping coins on this one. Running Bear and Little White Dove both jumped in the river, and both drowned when the raging river pulled them down. But Running Bear stayed up a bit longer, and similarly, I think Brown...
He was partial to sentimental operettas like Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow, and made pilgrimages to the Wagner festival in Bayreuth. He scorned Herman Goring's zest for the hunt: "Today when anybody with a fat belly can safely shoot the animal down from a distance." Though he...