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...Kiss” with Meg Ryan. I was 10. 7. Glitter makeup. This trend makes quite a resurgence during the holiday season. No one, however, looks good with blue glitter splayed all over their forehead. This is just common sense. What works in Ibiza does not necessarily translate to Puritan land. 6. Novelty Christmas jewelry. Christmas themed jewelry has singlehandedly ruined two perfectly fine holiday parties for me this year. Though snowmen earrings masquerade as the epitome of festivity, they actually sap festivity from all gatherings. 5. Tartan. This is an unfortunate fabric that drapes unfortunately. Unless...
...courted Katherine Rodgers. The couple went on to sire our university’s namesake—John Harvard. And while the university was founded by a man whose parents very possibly knew Shakespeare personally, this fact did not foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life at Harvard from its origins up to the present day.Yet all hope is not lost. With a renewed interest in the arts emanating from Massachusetts Hall and mirrored in the English department and American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), the time...
...John Harvard a role model, the opportunity to be altruistic, and most importantly, to give,” Van Devere said. A dearth of biographical information about Harvard has left dramatists like Van Devere with a unique opportunity. There have been few attempts to dramatize the life of this Puritan reverend in the last 400 years, and Van Devere took this opportunity to add what he called his “personal sense of human touch” to Harvard’s story. “Now’s the time or never to bring John Harvard forward...
...audience members at President Drew G. Faust’s installation ceremony, drenched by downpour—auguring perhaps the Heavens’ displeasure with the proceedings—and subjected to all the platitudinous ennui, could observe the new administration’s explicit hostility to tradition. Our Puritan founders, though bigots themselves, were thrust into stocks by the likes of President Faust and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71and pilloried for their apparent prejudice against women’s liberation and atheism—the two talismans of the nascent Faust...
...wealth production is gambling, and Australians are among the most shamefully obsessed gamblers in the world. We have 20 times as many "pokies"--poker machines--per person as Americans. Our styles of wealth production enforce the belief that superiority is luck and only luck: no moral lessons apply. The Puritan impulse toward social responsibility that created the American system of educational, cultural and scientific philanthropy hardly exists in Australia...