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...always rivaled and frequently exceeded the female variety. One of the many theories now advanced in explanation of the new display of male plumage rests on the premise that the human peacock is merely showing his true feathers. "Perhaps man is coming into his biological destiny, suppressed in our Puritan milieu," says Psychologist Robert D. Meade of Western Washington State College. "It is the male in all nature, you know, who spreads his gorgeous tail feathers and erects his ruff for the inconspicuous little brown mate." Other speculation holds that the trend represents a concerted male effort, led by youth...
...Dunster defense held the strong running Winthrop Puritans scoreless and preserved a tie in the other 0-0 game yesterday. The Puritan single wing attack led by John Fitzgerald penetrated deep into Dunster territory on several occasions. But each time a tough Dunster front line foiled Winthrop near the goal line and secured...
...desperately inserting pointed objects into their wombs is, to my mind, infinitely more questionable than the subject of abortion itself. What is the theory behind keeping abortions from those who need them most, wives who already have too many children and unwed pregnant girls? I assume it is a Puritan hangover of a need to punish them for enjoying sex, in which case denying them the operation is as logical as castrating their husbands and lovers. The objection that an abortion prevents a human from entering the world is purely intellectual, since a major problem today is precisely the fact...
Griswold's two most notable personal characteristics are his Puritan stead-fastness and his rock-solid mien...
...first Boy Scout, who won his original fame for his defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, turns out to have been a very shrewd operator indeed. At a time when one bemedaled British generalissimo after another was getting his cavalry pants shot oft by those hairy, puritan Dutch farmers in South Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save the Queen round...