Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritan Love. The Protestant Reformation was responsible for the development of a third Christian attitude toward marriage-companionability. Martin Luther maintained that, in the eyes of God, a monk may be no more holy than a married man. Luther's own marriage, says Bainton, was chiefly to exemplify this teaching. "I am not madly in love," Luther once said, "but I esteem my wife...
...Quakers established women as the spiritual equals of men. The Puritan conception of companionship and "tender respectiveness" set a new standard for Christian marriage. Wrote William Penn to his wife, as he was about to depart for Pennsylvania: "My dear wife, remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life; the most beloved, as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts . . . God knows, and thou knowest it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making...
...even in Gide's own sensationally indiscreet autobiography, It Die (a limited edition appeared in the U.S. in 1935), is the reader treated to a grimmer spiritual wrestling match than in this account of Gide v. his personal devil, Gide v. an inhospitable world, Gide v. his Puritan conscience...
...homer with two on base by Puritan Dann Stevens gave Winthrop a 9 to 4 triumph over Kirkland...
Winthrop's fagless, hagless, jagless training program paid off yesterday as the Puritan eight took an early lead over Eliot's bulking oarsmen and held on to win by 10 feet in the last of the semifinal inter-house heats. Lowell was third by a length...