Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly a sense of moral obligation to the needy is deeply implanted in the American character. Day's "opulent, careworn saint" is a firm fixture in the national legacy. John Winthrop, Puritan leader and first Governor of Massachusetts, probably laid down the first American do-gooder's covenant when he told his flock: "We must love one another with a pure heart fervently, we must bear one another's burdens, we must look not only on our own things, but also on the things of our brethren." William Penn was a tireless proponent of charity...
...written by six Christian education executives which maintains that sex is moral if the partners are committed to the "fulfilling of each other's personhood"-pointedly omitting marriage as a prerequisite. The statement, which shows how far some U.C.C. leaders have moved from the sex ethic of their Puritan forefathers, also urges the church to recognize the sexual needs of single persons. The church's synod has not yet discussed the report, and seems unlikely...
...have been a nonentity and herself, emotionally stunted. She brought her children up by a Victorian Dr. Spock that would have been enough to curdle any child's blood, let alone the extraordinarily sensitive, intelligent children that were hers. Edward Dickinson, Emily's father, was a severe and joyless Puritan, more interested in politics than his family, a conflict which he could never resolve...
post-bourgeois, post-capitalist, post-Christian, post-civilized, post-economic, posthistoric, postindustrial, postliberal, post-literature, post-market, post-materialist, postmodern, post-organization, post-protestant, post-puritan, post-scarcity, post-traditional, post-tribal and post-welfare...
John Harvard has traditionally paced the Crimson football sideline in a 1636 Puritan costume, but the Harvard cheerleaders may soon trade in their blunderbust and Crimson for meatballs and spaghetti sauce...