Word: puritanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strictest theological orthodoxy. It is even more bizarre in light of the contrast between the Christianity of Memorial Church (as aided by the Choir) and the Catholicism of Claudio Monteverdi's Venice in 1610. Monteverdi's exuberant celebration of the festival of the Virgin Mary outrageously flaunts Puritan restraint...
...full title of this seldom produced opera, I Puritani di Scozia, is never used any more. That is because Bellini's Italian librettist, Carlo Pepoli, thought Plymouth was in Scotland instead of southern England. The curtain rises to find the Puritans in league with Cromwell in his battle against the Cavaliers loyal to the Stuarts. The Puritan leader, Lord Walton, is even holding prisoner the widow of Charles I, Enrichetta...
Things get a bit sticky when Walton agrees to let his daughter Elvira marry a royalist, Lord Arturo Talbot. They get even more awkward when, on the wedding day, Arturo spirits Enrichetta away from the Puritan fortress to safety. Elvira does not understand that, and goes sweetly and pathetically mad, while Arturo is sentenced in absentia to death...
...coach, an obtuse Puritan type who had read too many Vince Lombardi clippings, retired Mike's jersey for the season...
...future"-a cautionary model of what the U.S. might become if and when it finally degenerates into a transcontinental landscape of neon, plastic, and religious eccentricity. Californians tend to look back the other way, over their shoulders, with a snobbery of heritage worthy of Cavalier Virginia or Puritan New England. To be able to connect with grandfathers and great-grandfathers who had a place in the state's earlier development gives a select few of them some sort of hedge against the banality of tract house and freeway...