Word: puritanize
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...Over Thanksgiving, Gossip Guy reflected on what he has to be thankful for: a cornucopia of Indian-assisted rumors, a smorgasbord of lies, and bountiful, Puritan innuendo...
...appreciate the 3 a.m. dance parties I had in order to wake myself up long enough to finish this or that problem set. My roommates and I went to a few games, probably because we wanted to see my prefect, who was the mascot, dance around in an oversized Puritan outfit. At a game against Brown I remember him getting into a testosterone tussle with their mascot. We laughed all the way home: nothing like the physically timid yet emotionally charged pushes and shoves exchanged between the mascots of two athletically marginal teams...
...fiction author William Martin ’72 is writing his seventh novel, Harvard Yard, on the history of Harvard. The novel, due to be published in the fall of 2003, is the sequel to Martin’s New York Times Best Seller, Back Bay, which fictionalized the Puritan city’s founding. Reintroducing several of the characters from Back Bay, Harvard Yard will recount the entire history of Harvard, following the book’s main character, Peter Fallon, on a hunt to find a rare and valuable book that was a part of John Harvard?...
...subtle but invasive ways, liberal education as we experience it has become gradually, but persistently, pre-professionalized. True, we are still studying material life in Puritan America, and the significance of leitmotifs in Dickens, or marriage rituals in rural South China, instead of contract law or mergers and acquisitions, yet the nature of our learning has changed. Outside of the tutorial system and particularly in some parts of the Core, we are asked to read staggering amounts of material, process it for a brief section, and move on to the next assignment. I couldn’t tell...
...glaring accents. I revised my reply to the inevitable “Where are you from?” inquiry. “Michigan,” I said. “But I want to live in New York.” I hardly lived up to the Puritan pedigree, but at least I was trying...