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True, many things haven't changed at the prep school The pressure to succeed and the competition are still intense. Despite changes in the composition of the student body, faculty and administration, the Puritan ethic persists Students face a bevy of rules and regulations, covering everything from off-campus travel to having guests of the opposite sex in rooms to even the slightest hint of dishonesty...
Besides, the Northeast, bourgeois, secularly Puritan culture of Harvard is hardly the most openly sexual in the world. People here are less comfortable with flirting, a rather important prelude to dating, than in societies such as Italy, France, or even Southern California...
...included threats with a knife, punches, a kick to the stomach that caused a hemorrhage. Navy doctors treated her for injuries to her neck and arm. "He'd slam me up against doors. He gave me black eyes, bruises. Winter and summer, I'd go to work like a Puritan, with long sleeves. Afterward he'd soothe me, and I'd think, He's a good man. What did I do wrong...
...international relations for 11 years, since leaving Jimmy Carter's State Department, where he was director of policy planning. He is the author of five books on U.S. foreign policy. When he talks, his eyes are penetrating and his humor is wry. Described variously by associates as "a stalwart Puritan," "immensely kind," "the opposite of a self-promoter" and "a tough competitor," he seems psychologically centered, surprisingly devoid of the egotism and Machiavellian qualities often found in presidential advisers...
...though, because I have not worked very hard here, and I have engaged in soft living for which the Calvinist founders of Harvard would undoubtedly have had a remedy. Unlike some of my classmates, I still do not have the self-confidence to laugh at our school's old Puritan roots. In many ways, those roots reflect my own values...