Word: puritanly
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...arena at the Charles Playhouse is set by Robert G. Skinner with a few solid, bare beams, evocative of Puritan living conditions and symbolic of the strong, harsh, undecorated, uneuphemistic outlook of the Puritan soul. To some degree this is Mr. Miller's outlook too, and according to it he has made a sturdy play, admirable in many aspects and intermittently powerful...
...York, senior member and onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over...
Items: "Lack of emotional warmth, closeness, love and enjoyment of life"; in his own life he treated love like a flower pressed in a book, "an object of science, but . . . dry and sterile." Most startling: "Freud, the great spokesman for sex, was altogether a typical puritan. To him, the aim of life for a civilized person was to suppress his emotional and sexual impulses." And from Freud's own pen is a clear statement that even within a supposedly ideal marriage his sex life was over when...
...drink "to the Glory of God and the confusion of my enemies." He was not halfhearted in his piety toward the stuff. Off and on, over 20 years, he polished a poem in praise of wine. He found it a symbol of the good things of life denied by Puritan religions or by "Islam, furtive enemy of the soul." He said: "May I reach the Kitchen in Heaven and drink with St. Christopher"-although he believed St. Christopher to be a "pure legend...
Ford advised the Congregational-Presbyterian group to avoid a campaign for renewal of University reaffirmation of a "Protestant-Puritan" tradition and to omit "explicit, self-conscious missionary activity." College religious groups can make their greatest contribution by assisting the individual to acquire "a sense of integrity and consistency" during a period of constantly changing values and aspirations, Ford declared...