Word: puritanize
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First of the great presidents was John Leverett. Layman and liberal in an of office always before filled by puritan ministers, he refused to see his College turned into a Calvinist school of theology. In puritan-dominated New England, these views were regarded as dangerous. Leverett wanted a liberal arts college; his utilitarian neighbors wished to see their sons taught practical skills...
Gary Cooper, cast as a kind of seafaring vagabond, alights on the island, where a missionary of unspecified denomination (Barry Jones) has set up a kind of puritan police state that would have made Calvin's Geneva look like Las Vegas. The natives are marched to church by club-wielding wardens, bronzed maidens must be fully clothed at all times, and boys and girls who go swimming together are flogged. In this unhappy Eden, Cooper soon starts a-rebellion that is visually a lot more interesting than any saloon brawl in which he ever thrashed a bunch of cattle...
...have relied upon the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that persons may not be required to act as witnesses against themselves. It is particularly appropriate to assert the privilege here since it had its origins in the protection of political and religious dissidence in the Puritan period in England...
Crew: As usual, it should be power-houses Winthrop and Eliot battling for the top. Both consistently float three full boats. There is a strong possibility of instituting 150 pound crews this year, a move which could challenge the Elephant-Puritan dominance. Kirkland and Eliot have already been out on the river...
Despite its Technicolor parade of sun-burned, gaudily-dressed couples, Mississippi Gambler remains a drab romance. Tyrone Power's discreet gambling and puritan manner would put a benevolent granny to shame, while Piper Laurie's reception of his passion stirs some deep psychological trauma--if you care to interpolate from an occasional tear runs Without damage down her lovely face...