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...toured what was left of old Nauvoo and learned that Smith had run his growing church from an office above his family's general store. I liked this detail. It brought the man alive for me. Unlike Brigham Young, the stern puritan who succeeded him, Smith was an improviser, a boyish mystic, brimming with charismatic, homegrown visions. In the fields beyond his store, he liked to dress up as a general and drill his personal army, the Nauvoo Legion. In 1844, the year he was murdered, he announced a quixotic candidacy for the U.S. presidency...
...Speak for Yourself," a musical-comedy set in a New England Puritan settlement, is the first Hasty Pudding show to open in five years. "Both the law of averages and traditional Harvard theatrical on Holyoke Street," The Crimson writes...
...felt like a stable owner who had sunk all his money into one Thoroughbred," says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield, who oversaw the project. Happily for us, Hughes never pulled up lame. His insight and his vigorous prose perfectly frame the lavish illustrations, which range from a 17th century Puritan headstone to Jackson Pollock's energetic Abstract Expressionism...
There are several ways in which the Puritan legacy has formed all modern Americans, no matter what the color of their skin or their ancestors' place of origin. The Puritans implanted the American work ethic and the tenacious primacy of religion. They also invented American newness--the idea of newness as the prime creator of culture. They lived in expectation of something new and very big arising: Christ's reign on earth, the Millennium. This newness (with ancient precedents that lay in the Old Testament) would bring about a new phase of world history. Newness was to Americans what antiquity...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...