Word: puritanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep their opinions to themselves; if they discussed them in public or attempted to act upon them, they were exiled; if they persisted in returning, they were cast out again; if they still came back, as did four Quakers, they were hanged on Boston Common. And from the Puritan point of view, it was good riddance. Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson, The Puritans...
Harvard Stadium, in the heart of once-Puritan New England, can be the home of a grand new religious uproar, a modern-day, semi-Antinomian crisis. With Penn-sylvania's Quakers coming to Cambridge today, we must band together and reject William Penn's descendants as our forefathers did more than two centuries...
Anti-Catholicism came over on the Mayflower. It was part of the doctrinal baggage that the founding Protestants - whether separatist Puritan, Scottish Presbyterian or Cavalier Anglican - brought with them. Almost every colony harassed "papists," and some excluded Catholics entirely; priests were liable to arrest in Massachusetts. The Dudleian Lectures were established at Harvard in the early 18th century partly to expose, as their founder said, "the Church of Rome as that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament." In New York in 1741, two Catholics were executed, one for being a "professed...
...medical school of choice. You must read all of the suggested books and go to as many University-sponsored events as possible. Always smile. Spend a lot of money, and get thoroughly lost at least twice, once on campus and once in Cambridge (which by some quirk of the Puritan Ethic lacks signs indicating the names of major streets, but has them for side streets, presumably working on the assumption that if you don't know the name of the street you're on, you don't deserve to. Members of the elect know; everyone else has to guess. Thank...
...protect the Saudis against a foreign attack, but we are no more capable of protecting the Saudis against internal subversion than we were of protecting the Shah against revolt." If such an internal revolt came, added Akins, "it would not be leftist, it would be Muslim puritan, and we are not going to do anything with those gunboats...