Word: puritanly
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...first half-century who were not reelected. "So when posterity gives them something better than reelection, it does present a heart-warming thing to some of us who face the hazards of public life ... We can consider that they have bequeathed to us two extraordinary and important qualities: conscience, Puritan conscience, and courage-the courage of those who look to other days and other times...
...cinema's stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even fat old slob of a mother (Audrey Christie), a living list of everything lousy that has ever been said about womanhood, reads her daughter a puritan's primer of sexual misconceptions: "Boys don't respect a girl they can go all the way with. Anyway, no nice girl has those feelings...
...elements of the "Traditional" system include an emphasis on achievement, future-time orientation, independence, and Puritan morality. The Study found that members of this system tend to major in Natural or Social Science, to get fairly uniform grades, and to participate in extra-curricular activities such as athletics, political organizations, religious groups, and service clubs. They frequently rise to extra-curricular offices as early as their sophomore year...
...fact, the College, for all the reverence attached to its name has never had a very clear notion of what it was about, except at the very beginning. In those days, everyone knew that the business of any college was to rear Puritan divines. This purposeful age vanished, however with the Unitarian Coup, and ever since Harvard has been adrift on a secular sea, stirred vaguely, as great corporate bodies are, by forgotten impression and dim, ancient impulses from its past, like parietal regulations...
...Place to Go. Inevitably, the O'Briens encountered and bitterly resented the anti-Irish feelings that gripped western Massachusetts-the Yankee-bred hostility toward immigrants, the Puritan suspicion of Roman Catholics, the NO IRISH NEED APPLY signs on the factory gates. "My father ran into bigotry," says Larry. "It made him a strong Democrat. It was one place for him to go. He wasn't wanted elsewhere." O'Brien Sr. became a Democratic Party organizer deep inside a Republican fastness. "It was the old story of the Irish immigrant becoming a citizen, a first voter...