Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Santayana, 81-year-old poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan), was awarded Columbia University's quinquennial Nicholas Murray Butler gold medal for his four metaphysical books, Realms of Being. The award will have to go to Rome where, since 1941, he has shunned war in a convent, finding that "in solitude it is possible to love mankind...
...reviewing Professor Ralph Barton Perry's Puritanism and Democracy (TIME, Jan. 22), you say: "The essential faith of America came into being in the cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England...
...should have rejoiced to make him appear a less disagreeable character, but, paradoxically, a Puritan conscience has prevented me. No British critic has succeeded in proving that I have tampered with any historical fact, or falsified either Milton's literary style or his point of view; and I trust that no American critic will, either. To have represented Milton as spouting beautiful poetry and doing beautiful deeds would have been a lie; throughout his life with Marie Powell he did not write a single memorable poem, or, so far as we know, perform a single generous deed. And nobody...
...compelling brunette girl of the streets. When Netta spurns his advances, George provides the reader with some pleasant food for bedtime though by drowning her while she gambols in the evening bath. The late Laird Cregar, Twentieth-Century Fox's discerning choice for Bone, was forced by a more puritan plot to strangle a fully-dressed wench with a strip of drapery...
Anne Hutchinson, religious enthusiast who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for feeling good (called Antinomianism by Puritan divines), was the object of a bill introduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Object: to revoke her banishment and allow her to "return" to ban-bound Boston, where she is the only woman ever honored by a statue...