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...Neill employed the classical plot as a framework in which he could examine dramatically the suppressed guilt he saw in the Puritan mind. The murder and desire for revenge that divides the austere Mannon family into two camps is also the conflict between Puritanical repression and the open sensuality of the foreigner. Except for details of place and time, O'Neill has not had to change Aeschylus' story at all: the Trojan War has become the Civil War, and Agemmemnon is now the victorious General Ezra Mannon...
...raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or hunt their own food. The elder Bailey was a Puritan, who liked being 52 miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin of Species; his father, who had heard fearsome things about...
...third largest of the Houses, Winthrop will have between 35 and 40 singles when all the rooms are "deconverted." This, as well as the sturdy, sound absorbing walls, should attract lovers of quiet and solitude to the Puritan roost. A possible disadvantage is that there are few showers, most of the rooms having only bathtubs...
...hockey front, Adams defeated Winthrop, 9 to 4, to regain a second place tie with the Puritans. Both the Gold Coasters and Puritan sextets have won five and lost...
Winthrop's Puritans clung to their second-place standing in the intra-House hockey loop with a 6-2 win over Dudley yesterday morning on the Arena ice, sending the Commuters into a last-place tie with Leverett. Hans Estin, Puritan first string center, paced the scoring with two goals...