Word: puritanism
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Easing into his chair underneath the portrait of an 18th century Puritan minister, Epps says the two and a half days he now spends on campus each week keep him connected to the place to which he has devoted much of his adult life...
...shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you." And John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis, Man Transformed or, the Artificial Changeling, Historically Presented, a Puritan diatribe published in 1653, railed against disfigurement of the body in pursuit of "ridiculous beauty," "filthy fineness" and "loathesome loveliness...
...However, until that day comes a warning to the wise is as follows, plan ahead because a spur of the moment party can be left high and dry in this Puritan state...
...secret that living in the commonwealth of Massachusetts does not always lend itself to spontaneity. Thanks to the ingenuity of the pious, not-so-fun Puritan founders of the Commonwealth, both residents and tourists looking for a full evening of after-hours festivities often find it difficult to fill their dance cards without planning ahead...
...Puritan vocabulary, he gave me my calling," said Andrew H. Delbanco '73, who wrote his doctoral dissertation under Heimert and is now a professor of the humanities at Columbia University...