Word: puritanly
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...decades, Massachusetts has enjoyed a peculiar double reputation for political affiliations. The Commonwealth is both the Puritan colony of John Winthrop and the most liberal state in the Union; it was the only state to give its electoral votes to George McGovern in 1972 and is the outdated land that only recently took its Blue liquor laws off the books. The last 200 years were, in a sense, a lengthy experiment in banishing the 17th century from Massachusetts—leaving its reactionary history behind and defining the Bay State as a haven for the progressive principles of tolerance...
...shirts with lewd and/or violent images all over them. One t-shirt depicts the Yale bulldog kneeling in front of John Harvard, his face at level with our mascot’s crotch. Another portrays John Harvard straddling a bottle of vodka. Dartboard can just imagine the devout Puritan turning in his grave...
Students with a spontaneous craving for beer or screwdrivers on Sunday afternoon may no longer be thwarted by the vestiges of Massachusetts’ puritan laws...
...maybe John Harvard and the rest of the Puritan gang didn’t foresee the fact that we would all be happier if we lived in a crime-ridden, poverty-stricken town instead of a picturesque movie-set on the banks of the Charles. So if we take Yale as a model, perhaps the UC should spend a little less energy screening Finding Nemo and more time scouring the real estate listings for a stately mansion perfect for the kind of “dirty, big room parties” Harvard can only dream about...
...moment, Dubowski felt it was too heated of a time to really confront the question for himself, and that “the puritan wasteland of Boston” wasn’t the ideal place to do so. So he spent time in San Francisco, whose spirited gay population he found much more supportive. After college, Dubowski moved back home to New York...