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...Puritan New England regarded obesity as a flagrant symbol of intemperance, and thus a sin. Says Keys: "Maybe if the idea got around again that obesity is immoral, the fat man would start to think." Morals aside, the fat man has plenty to worry about-over and above the fact that no one any longer loves him. The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart "for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were...
...that government." While St. Robert Bellarmine is entitled to the greatest credit for his unpopular thesis in those days that the authority of the Pope over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual, this is not nearly as important to Jefferson and Madison as John Locke and the Puritan revolution...
Newburyport. just after the Revolutionary War, was fast slipping its Puritan chains. The rich, the decent and the God fearing still ran things, but there was plenty of heavy drinking, and sons of the well-to-do liked to prove their nonchalance by slipping a hundred-dollar bill into a sandwich and eating it. Poor Timothy Dexter wanted desperately to break into the upper crust, but he hadn't a prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead...
...Vineyard since 1920. and knows both New England and newspapering well enough to talk of them with fondness and disgust. He writes of a great American theme that Marquand treated more broadly in The Late George Apley and Santayana with more subtlety and depth in The Last Puritan. But Hough gives it the unique flavor of printer's ink and an old editor's green-eyeshaded wisdom. His novel, written in good journeyman's prose, is an effective polemic and an unsentimental elegy...
...once complained: "Oh, if only Taft knew the joys of leadership!" Woodrow Wilson was dogmatic, inscrutably secretive and of limited vitality. His mind was second rate and his style of writing "synthetic Burke."¶ Calvin Coolidge was "arid," a kind of puritan, the sort of man who would make a speech "about George Washington as a businessman...