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...Reformation which modern Protestantism tends to neglect is the overarching sense of vocation, the Calvinist and Lutheran drive to participate in the whole of this actual world and to bring all of it under the judgment of God...What we imagine to be the Protestant tradition, the Puritan would disown as a flight from responsible exercise of power or influence...
Savonarola jumped into the life of Florence with the zest of a Puritan unloosed in Babylon. A man of deep and solitary faith, he believed he was God's instrument for purifying both church and city, and said so. His fervor turned out the Medici dictatorship, temporarily turned Florence into a theocracy. He fed the starving, reduced taxes for the poor, and protected the city from French invaders. He also burned books, ruthlessly condemned heresy, recruited armies of children to spy on their elders...
...story of a hard earth bound New England family, Desire Under the Elms is a study of the forms of possession which find root in the Puritan dogma. It is tragedy in its deepest most elemental sense. Each character seeks justification for his cruelty to the others by his fear of the wrath of an Old Testament God. An elemental force drives each to "Willow everything," to consume love and property in the desire for self increase. But through all the crude violence and apparent pessimism of the play there arises an intense affirmation of the dignity...
Ferry, an associate professor of biochemistry, received his appointment some time before the House opened in 1930. Since his position dates from that time, Ferry is actually the veteran of almost 22 years of running the Puritan establishment...
Winthrop's solid-hitting softball team, potentially the strongest in the House League, finally brought some of its power into the daylight yesterday, walloping an in-and-out Kirkland squad, 14 to 7. The Puritan baseball team, led by pitcher Ken Eddy, with a triple and a double, took the measure of the Deacons...