Word: puritanically
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...program as it now stands. But subsequent grades do not ignore the groundwork that has been laid. Mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology courses all pick up where the students have left off before. History courses go on through the sixteenth century in the tenth grade, and through the Puritan Revolution, the development of constitutions, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution in the eleventh grade. With this background, the twelfth grade in the first term again goes over U. S. history from 1789 to 1917, and in the second studies the U. S. and the world from...
...brief respite from a quarter century of Puritan austerity, the Class of '33 embarks today on a four-day 25th Reunion embellished with straw hats, class ties, plastic badges, and special parking privileges, courtesy of the Cambridge Police Department...
...away, and the stuff is not there. In the theater, where it ran 208 performances in 1924-25, Desire Under the Elms was properly furnished with a dark and womblike set, and the spectator could feel himself shut up in the incestuous nightmare at the core of the puritan mentality. But in this picture the atmosphere is dissipated in the irrelevant vastness of the VistaVision screen, and almost all the emotional pressure is lost...
Josiah Quincy was a Puritan in the truest Harvard sense, and mixed his education with political gamesmanship. He served at one time (the Beacon Street era) as a reform mayor of Boston, and was subsequently relegated to Washington's House of Representatives. He was a Federalist...
...play some ball"); di Mag's girl, a progressive schoolteacher who starts the whole town talking with her sex talks to second graders; a real-estate shyster who turns swampland into pay dirt by renaming it "Powderhorn Hill"; a toothsome teen-age tidbit named Comfort Goodpasture whose Puritan blood is brought to a boil by a guitar-strumming Army corporal from Altus, Okla...