Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play involves the division between the Afrikaners and the English as well as between whites and blacks. Its young policeman hero (Barry Sullivan) -who, by sinning with a native girl, tragically violates both the law and a relentless social code-stands in as fissuring a relationship to his bigoted Puritan father (Finlay Currie) as to his narrow, unresponsive wife. There are half a dozen sources of voltage and half a dozen reasons for crossed wires; and such a complex of race and religion, of family and sex, cannot be cut down without having something like the heart...
...Methodist minister and a pianist, Composer Floyd comes by his text (which he wrote in ten days) and score almost by inheritance. And Susan nah powerfully points his moral : that the U.S. "Puritan" heritage has condi tioned us to suspect anyone who is a little different, to equate nonconformity with wrongdoing and evil." More important, it also proved him able to fashion vocal music that is eminently singable - and listenable. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship this year, Floyd plans to spend it composing and writing. Director Erich Leinsdorf, who deserves credit for a fine discovery, can almost surely count...
Last fall, Dunster entered its final game undefeated only to be upset by a scrappy Puritan eleven, 13-6, on a last period tally by Al Lubetkin. This victory gave Winthrop first place in the league with a record of six wins against one loss, while Dunster dropped to second on a record of five victories, a loss...
Cork Popper. Meet Ella Beecher, 16 years old and unhappy on a western Kansas farm in 1914. Mother is an Old Testament termagant in gingham, a Puritan who never tires of inveighing against sin, fun and sloth, who can drop the appropriate Biblical thunderbolt at the popping of a cork or the inadvertent sign of simple happiness. Daddy, not unnaturally, has taken to popping corks, and brother Joe has married a woman as unlike his mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies...
Margaret Gibbs is a classic example of the Puritan limner's art. Typically, seven-year-old Margaret meets the eye not like a real girl in a real world but like a dream of one. Her body looks no thicker than a dress on a clothes hanger. The ringleted hair, silver necklace, lace, drawstrings and bows are presented distinctly. But it would be hard to guess how Margaret looked from the side. Her square-toed shoes scarcely touch the floor, and though the floor is seen from above, Margaret stands at eye level. Nevertheless, the portrait is superb...