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Though Adams had the same prickliness as Give-'Em-Hell Harry, he's just not quite as colorful. From a family of Puritan farmers, Adams was honest and solid, but he could be argumentative, vain and despairing. In John Adams (Simon & Schuster; 751 pages; $35), McCullough does not try to exalt him. Instead he shows how Adams' ability to be sensible and independent made him an important element in the firmament of talents that created a new nation...
...things stand, the T is a quick, efficient and reliable way to get from Harvard to downtown Boston-unless, of course, you have the temerity to stay out later than 12:30 a.m. Boston should be proud of its Puritan heritage, but John Winthrop must not be allowed to dictate its transportation policy in the 21st century. Extending T hours will allow Boston's sizeable student population to venture more frequently into the city in the evenings, something that may help to liven up the rather placid nightlife of downtown and Back...
There's another sort--let's call him Conservation Wuss. He might hug a tree but not necessarily. Some of his ilk are skinflints, in the Puritan-Calvinist tradition, clipping coupons (for cents off on laundry detergent, not bonds) and using fluorescent light bulbs. Others are poor folks, trying to stretch a buck. They all see the value of heat pumps and buying low-flow shower heads and cars based on how many miles per gallon they...
...time it was over there was blood on the steps of University Hall; the diversity that Harvard now cherishes would make the many of the Houses’ namesakes shake in their graves, whether Increase Mather, Class of 1656, who left this conservative Puritan school for a more conservative Puritan community in New Haven, or A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who hoped to maintain the Brahmin finishing school by creating maximum quotas for undesirables like Jews. University President-to-be Lawrence H. Summers is coming from the Treasury and University President-soon-that-was Neil L. Rudenstine is going...
...great puritan is at it again. John McCain calls himself a crusader; he has the attitude to match. He wants nothing less than to purify the nation and drive out evil. The evil is money in politics, of course, and he will slay it with campaign-finance reform. His panacea is to ban the soft-money contributions that corporations, unions and others give to political parties for use in campaigns...