Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrived at Harvard in 1945 as a first-year from Elmhurst, Ill., and went on to become Eliot House master, chair of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, chair of the English and American Civilization department and the preeminent scholar on Puritan America...
Last year, Heimert taught an Eliot House Seminar on Abraham Lincoln fall semester and a seminar on Puritan America in the spring...
...course, the Red Sox lost. But not because of the Curse of the Bambino--the infamous mojo said to hover over Fenway Park ever since Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees in 1919--or because of a pall of New England Puritan guilt, or decades of nerves frayed into vermicelli by the exploits of Bucky Dent or Bill Buckner. The Sox lost because two mighty players--Pedro Martinez, the best pitcher in baseball, and Nomar Garciaparra, the finest shortstop whose first name happens to be his father's name spelled backward, at least until there's a better shortstop...
...attained a fine finish. Over the next 50 minutes, Mendelson, a gangly man with a Dead Poets passion, alights on the distinctions between the Puritan, Enlightenment and Romantic mind-sets; Pascal's wager over the existence of God; his (Mendelson's) sister; the unreliable narrator; and, of course, Muhammad...
...Alexandra, 17, almost a musical puritan, started hanging out with her grandmother when she realized that everything on the radio was no good. Her grandmother, besides being her best friend, gives her her grandfather's old Chuck Berry records. Consequently, Alexandra rues the day that rock 'n roll died, and wishes everybody had at least four Chuck Berry albums. Until modern music stops sucking, until it stops sampling old music and starts being original, it can do without her patronage...