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This was the first test for Leverett's famed defense. Two smashes into the line left, Winthrop with a third-and-seven situation on the Leverett 14. On the next play, a saint off tackle, the Puritan halfback fumed and Leverett players swarmed over the ball ending Winthrop's threat...
Leverett took over on the 16 and made its only offensive showing of the night. With the help of two penalties and the powerhouse running of Jim Thompson, the Bunnies marched to the Puritan 16. Then Leverett quarterback Steve Ekdahl rolled to his right, picked up a key block from Leo Swift, and outran the Winthrop secondary into the end zone...
...place themselves at fixed distances, in a quartet, waving their arms to express their emotions." In a similar vein, Dr. Johnson called opera "an exotic and irrational entertainment," and it caused Charles Lamb "inexplicable anguish." Says British Conductor John Pritchard: "There is a tremendous backlog of Puritan suspicion of opera...
...rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry Ward Beecher thundered: "No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault-unless...
...subject was to be the grand subject that had possessed him so long, since his youthful vision on the banks of the Congo in 1926: the epic of the American mind from the first moment of its existence in Puritan New England to the Civil War. After his death in December 1963, manuscript for the first two sections of the projected book and part of a third section were found in his papers, and these have now been published under the original title...