Word: puritanism
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...scarcely any wonder that this ambiguous Puritan, this bigoted civil libertarian has eluded the makers of Cromwell. Yet it almost seems that they went out of their way to make the elusion mutual. As Director/Scenarist Ken Hughes sees it, Cromwell spent most of his time bursting into Parliament, squirming impatiently in his seat, then booming forth a set speech. Lost in the middle distance was the tentative, fluttery King Charles (Alec Guinness) whose crimes consisted of arbitrary taxation and ignorance that his nobles were cutting off the ears of outspoken foes. Happily, Guinness has his own ideas...
...course from The Scarlet Letter to The Late George Apley. These hardy few may recall no more demanding reading along the route; by comparison with Bronson, Henry James' The Bostonians is an act of primer realism. But what a brilliant, erratic goodbye this book is to all those Puritan ghosts who, for two centuries of fiction, have haunted the Concord woods and the cobbled streets of Beacon Hill...
...spirit of Thomas Morton of Merry Mount that I, at 58, tried my damnedest to have the mayor of Toronto extend an official welcome to a rock festival held here just over a year ago. He chose to reject the young people, as I, of Puritan ancestry...
...FIRST English ladies and gentlemen to arrive in Indian country were not overly burdened with the urge to keep church and state separate. John H. Laubach, in his book, School Prayers: Congress, the Courts and the Public, writes: "The Puritan settlement . . . of Massachusetts Bay . . . established under Governor Winthrop . . . in the seventeenth century sought to join the cross and the sword in founding a new Israel, following the Calvinist model." In 1639, the General Court of Massachusetts summoned Ann Hutchinson, charging that she allowed religiously unorthodox people to meet in her home and air their unseemly doctrines. Part of the transcript...
...aside from the fear of racial integration and the obvious economic competition, there was an authentic Puritan's outrage against rock's overt/covert...