Word: puritanism
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...least so conclude Joe Mamma (Jonathan Shapiro) and Stan Byerman (Christopher Charron), the slapstick odd couple who guide the more than three-hour production--albeit with intoxicated intermission--to a safe landing Joe and Stan banter about the bard while awaiting death at the hands of the prim. Puritan populace. In the lively opener, the straightlaced settlers musically proclaim that they have "A Lot at Stake," and then get down to the serious business of witch hunting...
Before recruitment efforts during the seventies brought in Native Americans, only two Indians had ever graduated from the College. This was despite recruitment efforts by the early Puritan Harvardians, who hoped to turn the Indians into missionaries to spread their beliefs...
...weak and poor and dispossessed. Rising at 5 a.m., hitting three or four states a day, drawing large, enthusiastic crowds (20,000 in Philadelphia, 15,000 in Ann Arbor), Mondale seemed strangely liberated. He quieted thousands jammed into a Cleveland shopping arcade by quoting John Winthrop, the 17th century Puritan who envisioned a shining "city upon a hill." Mondale emphasized Winthrop's words: "We must bear one another's burdens, we must rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, we must be knit together by a bond of love...
...promoting prostitution had been brought against her, Barrows, 32, had allegedly run a 20-girl, $1 million-a-year prostitution ring, one of the largest known to New York police. In her own way, the blond, slim, plain-faced patrician was as fastidious and thrifty as any of her Puritan ancestors. Recruiting models, actresses, some housewives and students from escort service ads and personal contacts, Barrows conducted grueling interviews. Besides good looks, she insisted upon intelligence and, above all, "eloquence." The chosen few were rated A, B or C in ascending order, depending on their talents...
...matter of the nation's soul, the impulse was collective from the start. Our so-called Protestant ethic would appear to endorse rugged individualism as the engine of hard work, but in fact the Puritan fathers were mainly concerned with individuals as contributors to a social compact. From John Cotton's The Way of Life (1641): "If thou beest a man that lives without a calling, though thou hast two thousands to spend, yet if thou hast no calling, tending to publique good, thou art an uncleane beast." From John Winthrop (1630), the first American...