Word: puritanical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first female minister ordained at Harvard since the University was founded to educate Puritan ministers in 1636 was received into the Lutheran ministry yesterday in a ceremony at Memorial Church...
...most part, however, the Cadets don't have time to escape. Their days are full, with classes, studying, and attending scheduled functions. Their achievement motivation and dedication are almost Puritan. The Cadets of West Point are constantly being told that they are "the cream of the cream...
...intensified the work ethic under the banner of patriotism. While the boys were on the battlefront, the folks on the home front serenaded Rosie the Riveter; a long day's work was a contribution to the national defense. In sum, the American work ethic is rooted in Puritan piety, immigrant ambition and the success ethic; it has been strengthened by Depression trauma and wartime patriotism...
...Friendly Persuasion." On the puritan side, Marcos closed down blue movies, strip shows and casinos, ordered police to seize slot machines. Newspapers that are allowed to resume publication will be forbidden to run editorials, society pages, gossip columns and lurid crime stories-a significant literary genre in a nation whose homicide rate is eight times that of the U.S. After a few nasty incidents, word came out of Malacanang Palace, Marcos' downtown Manila residence, that soldiers were not to cut off long hair or rip off miniskirts on sight. But Marcos' press secretary, Francisco Tatad, declared that ROTC...
...houseful of rubbish." After passing on his post as drama critic of London's Saturday Review to Max Beerbohm, he panned him ferociously. Beerbohm annoyed the master by observing that Shaw honestly believed that logic, not passion, made the world go round. How vulnerable G.B.S. the puritan superra-tionalist seems today in his rebuttal, waffling on about something he called "Reasonable Emotion...