Word: puritanically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...questions that begged for gently sarcastic rejoinders. What types of people would you choose NOT to have with you on “Survivor”? Well, those likely to beat me. What would you take with you to the remote location? My Norton Anthology of Poetry: thin pages, Puritan poets excellent for starting fires. What would you NOT do for a million dollars? Cheer for the Yankees...
There is, for example, no monument to Anne Hutchinson, the zealous Puritan woman whose challenges to the Puritan clergy of Boston were a large part of the inspiration behind the founding of a college in Cambridge...
...Over Thanksgiving, Gossip Guy reflected on what he has to be thankful for: a cornucopia of Indian-assisted rumors, a smorgasbord of lies, and bountiful, Puritan innuendo...
...appreciate the 3 a.m. dance parties I had in order to wake myself up long enough to finish this or that problem set. My roommates and I went to a few games, probably because we wanted to see my prefect, who was the mascot, dance around in an oversized Puritan outfit. At a game against Brown I remember him getting into a testosterone tussle with their mascot. We laughed all the way home: nothing like the physically timid yet emotionally charged pushes and shoves exchanged between the mascots of two athletically marginal teams...
...fiction author William Martin ’72 is writing his seventh novel, Harvard Yard, on the history of Harvard. The novel, due to be published in the fall of 2003, is the sequel to Martin’s New York Times Best Seller, Back Bay, which fictionalized the Puritan city’s founding. Reintroducing several of the characters from Back Bay, Harvard Yard will recount the entire history of Harvard, following the book’s main character, Peter Fallon, on a hunt to find a rare and valuable book that was a part of John Harvard?...