Word: puritanically
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...writes, is to spread a sense of wholeness and connectedness. Like Emerson and Whitman, he wants people to feel the universe in blades of grass and bubbles. He also retains the faith that principles can be turned into models and that models can be explained in words. "The last Puritan," Kenner calls him. Fuller sees reality not as permanence but as process. "I seem to be a verb," he says of himself. A highly active and irregular one, and Kenner conjugates it with great understanding, grace and affection. -R.Z. Sheppard
...devil, Edward Mulhare is an urbane charmer, and Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
...finest pieces Vidal has ever written. He turns what is ostensibly a book review (of Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin) into one of the best thumbnail biographies since Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. To Vidal, F.D.R.'s widow is the finest example of the Christian Puritan aristocrat, dedicated to improving the lives of the masses. In recalling her funeral, he concludes with a passage that out of context seems embarrassingly sentimental but actually reveals a great deal about this "tremendous hater and tiresome nag": "As the box containing her went past me, I thought, well, that...
...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...