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...Puritan soccer team shut out Adams, 2 to 0, yesterday and now has won six and tied two in the league. Winthrop also holds the distinction of not having been scored upon since the first period of its first game. Second-place Lowell downed the Kirkland Deacons on Wednesday...
...play involves the division between the Afrikaners and the English as well as between whites and blacks. Its young policeman hero (Barry Sullivan) -who, by sinning with a native girl, tragically violates both the law and a relentless social code-stands in as fissuring a relationship to his bigoted Puritan father (Finlay Currie) as to his narrow, unresponsive wife. There are half a dozen sources of voltage and half a dozen reasons for crossed wires; and such a complex of race and religion, of family and sex, cannot be cut down without having something like the heart...
...Methodist minister and a pianist, Composer Floyd comes by his text (which he wrote in ten days) and score almost by inheritance. And Susan nah powerfully points his moral : that the U.S. "Puritan" heritage has condi tioned us to suspect anyone who is a little different, to equate nonconformity with wrongdoing and evil." More important, it also proved him able to fashion vocal music that is eminently singable - and listenable. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship this year, Floyd plans to spend it composing and writing. Director Erich Leinsdorf, who deserves credit for a fine discovery, can almost surely count...
Last fall, Dunster entered its final game undefeated only to be upset by a scrappy Puritan eleven, 13-6, on a last period tally by Al Lubetkin. This victory gave Winthrop first place in the league with a record of six wins against one loss, while Dunster dropped to second on a record of five victories, a loss...
Cork Popper. Meet Ella Beecher, 16 years old and unhappy on a western Kansas farm in 1914. Mother is an Old Testament termagant in gingham, a Puritan who never tires of inveighing against sin, fun and sloth, who can drop the appropriate Biblical thunderbolt at the popping of a cork or the inadvertent sign of simple happiness. Daddy, not unnaturally, has taken to popping corks, and brother Joe has married a woman as unlike his mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies...