Word: protestante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Americans were at the time more interested in mobilizing Indians than in converting them, but when peace was restored they began to feel pangs of Protestant responsibility brought on by the recent abdication of the Londoners. A group of Bostonians in 1787 established the present foundation to take up...
In the course of nearly two centuries, the Boston Society has reduced its scope as its beneficiaries have dwindled. It still actively propagates the gospel--but recently it has been running into financial difficulties. Even with half the balance of Dr. Williams' annuity, the Society's income (from contributions and...
"Do you have any objections to family planning or birth control?" was phrased negatively to see if "reprisal threat" is a realistic problem. Of the 70 responding, four were eliminated for "high suggestibility" or lack of comprehension (foreign speaking). Of 66 respondents, 62 had no objection, 2 had qualified objections...
(2 of 11) claimed for his own since he made his first appearance as a New Yorker short-story writer 15 years ago. In his own words, he is "kind of elegiacally concerned with the Protestant middle class." Among modern American writers, only John Cheever shares Updike's sense...
The Centaur was a loving tribute to his father, an endearing old-style eccentric in whom Updike sees "the Protestant kind of goodness going down with all the guns firing-antic, frantic, comic, but goodness nonetheless." Though the novel is obscured by unnecessary buttresses of Greek mythology, the portrait of...