Word: puritanize
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...this is understandable, for my time here has been a faithful blend of New England and Russian experiences. Puritan because I find myself cloistered away in a hamlet on a quest for self-improvement. And Russian because I am suffering a great deal...
...notions of the separation of church and state owe a lot to Williams, a deeply pious Puritan clergyman who believed that civil authorities had no business enforcing religious views. (He also thought the British Crown had no power to grant to settlers land that belonged to Indians.) After his views got him banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams founded Rhode Island as a haven of toleration and freethinking. Gaustad's timely little book reminds us that those are the enduring foundations of American civilization...
...supreme mode of official commemoration, and the types he created are still very much with us. Our iconic sense of Abraham Lincoln as statesman, seamed, grave and erect, was created as much by Saint-Gaudens' bronzes as by Mathew Brady's photos. Our image of the repressive, striding Puritan with Bible, cloak and conical hat owes much of its existence to the rhetoric of Saint-Gaudens' monument to Deacon Samuel Chapin in Springfield, Mass. His only nude female figure, the gilded sheet-copper Diana that he made as a weathervane figure for the top of Stanford White's original Madison...
...addition, Limpert laments the loss of what he calls “New England and Boston influence” on Harvard life. While he considers some aspects of Puritan sensibility “laughable,” Limpert says that its values promoted the ideal of a serious, earnest life...
...really do feel very strongly that some of that Puritan influence was very valuable,” he says. “Don’t forget that Harvard started as a place to train ministers and it’s gotten about as far away from that as you can possibly...