Word: puritanical
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...that same afternoon—amidst the gales and intermittent downpour—introductory speaker and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, and the new Harvard president herself, seemed careful, however, to distance the incipient Faust era from the prejudices of the Puritan past...
...Mass. Hall will far outweigh any bureaucratic inconvenience. Mass. Hall’s function as a dormitory achieves that for which Harvard constantly strives: a delicate balance between incorporating the College’s colorful history, remaining faithful to tradition, and adapting the institution as it has developed from Puritan college to modern University. Mass. Hall once was home to the likes of John Hancock and John Adams, and the College is right in realizing that the 14 members of the class of 2012 lucky enough to be placed in Mass. Hall next fall are invaluable players in the building?...
...course, no such bloom would occur if the American soil were not already faith-saturated. But Ratzinger believes in America's "obvious spiritual foundation," its natural, Puritan-instilled DNA. He is well aware that this is eroding; he thinks we watch too much TV and fears that American secularization is proceeding at an "accelerated pace." But he insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus...
...holdover from the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s previous seal, which featured a similar Native American, this time naked and base, with a motto emerging from his mouth: “Come and help us.” There is a grim irony in this apostrophe to the Puritan mission civilisatrice, for, as any American must admit, the colonization of North America proceeded not under the mantle of aid but of annihilation. Within years of European contact, Massachusetts’ aboriginal people were decimated by disease and then finished off by military action...
...truculent Latin motto added to the seal. The sword and the motto, bounding the Native American, seem to be visually duplicating the violent hegemony which the European colonists held over the natives. The vertical superiority of the bent white arm reinforces the ugly racial superiority that characterized early Puritan history of Massachusetts...