Word: puritanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puritan Rule in England," Dr. Jordan, Harvard...
Almost all the factors in the tradition of Puritan qualities associated with New England find in Dr. Lowell a representative. His authority derives not alone from his investiture as president of Harvard but from his position as head of an established family of the Commonwealth and from a chronicle of Lowell achievements which have their roots deeply imbedded in the past. Harvard College had been founded, but three years when, in 1639, Percival Lowell arrived in Newbury from Old England. From that time until the present the family name has figured body in the record of Massachusetts accomplishments in science...
...political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson Herrick goes back to his Devonshire parish to be ousted by the Covenanters...
Music. Comrades with gramophones (and how prized is the oldest gramophone in Russia!) are now playing them openly at last, inviting their friends to dance and casting off frankly the Bolshevik-Puritan mask...
...novel Puritan's Progress (1931) Author Train credited U. S. Puritans with having a sense of mirthless humor that is a kind of coal-tar derivative from their "keen scent for the fumes of Hell." In contradistinction to this darkling humor he sets "gaiety, the most comprehensive of virtues, for it signifies faith, hope, charity and courage." In Princess Pro Tern he tosses all four ingredients generously into the potboiler, serves up a book that, whatever its faults...