Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last the word is out that the sovereignty of God is not bound to the chains of medieval and Puritan culture. New doctrines of God and Holy Scripture are musts for the space age, even if the death question must be raised...
...evidence is everywhere the eye lights, the ear listens, the commentator prowls, or the station wagon travels. If there is anything left of the Puritan tradition, it is hard to detect. Perhaps its strongest remaining element is what sociologists call the "work ethic." Executives and businessmen seem to work harder than ever (and certainly harder than the average union members), and so do students, whatever their other diversions. At the same time, thrift is no longer a virtue-it is, in fact, nearly subversive-pleasure is an unashamed good, leisure is the general goal and the subsidized life, from Government...
...book seems perversely dedicated to confusion, like Oxford's linguistic philosophy which, from a puritan devotion to clarity, actually makes it very difficult to say anything about anything. Professor Stephen Jervis (and Novelist Mosley with him) struggles against this self-denying ordinance. After all, the intellectual show must go on. This is a novel. It is, the reader is told by one character, not about characters or society, but "about knowing...
This fully articulate dissatisfaction with the limits of the lyric form led him to adopt a rather insignificant historical figure and build an imaginary relationship with her. "Why did I choose to write about this boring high-minded Puritan woman who may have been our first American poet but is not a good one?" In a way, he says, "she chose me." "Your deep subjects, I'm talking about attempts at major poetry, not lyrics or meditative poems, they come and take hold of you... The point is to throw as much light as possible on her, and apparently...
Moorehead leaves the contemporary reader aghast at the obtuseness of the British, who followed Cook's discovery with the decision to make a penal settlement of New Holland. Reason has its crimes: since the American dumping ground for Puritan and Catholic dissidents had been lost by the Revolution, it was quite sensible in London to decide that the new continent should be used for a gaol. In 1788, the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, civilization in the form of white slavery arrived at Cook's Botany Bay. So came about a bush Belsen, with...