Word: puritanly
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...whole course the three sculls were tightly grouped, but Tom Day of Winthrop poured on all his power in the waning seconds and shaded his fellow Puritan Bill Dowd by less than a quarter of a length, and Frank Tyng followed close behind with less than a full boat length separating him from the winner...
...Varsity field, Kirkland defeated Winthrop 8 to 4 in a fast six and one half inning game marked by few extra-base hits, numerous bases on balls, and some loose defensive play in the field. Kirkland scored their runs easily, as Puritan hurler Bill McAuliffe had trouble finding the big curve ball he used his last time out to set down Lowell with two hits...
Yesterday the Puritan softballers retaliated in handing Lowell its third setback in four starts, 10 to 6, in a game marked by the presence of numerous ringers on both sides. Leverett defeated Adams by default in the only other game scheduled...
...Hidden Key. To explain Hawthorne's curious bent in terms of heredity and the "Puritan conscience" means next to nothing; there were hundreds of other young New Englanders in the 1820s and '30s who grew up with a similar inheritance. The key is hidden somewhere in the peculiarities of Hawthorne's boyhood or in those of his years of self-imposed solitude in Salem. As a child, Hawthorne was temporarily crippled. His widowed mother was a virtual recluse and patently neurotic. At 21 he returned from Bowdoin College to Salem and himself developed into a kind...
...much for the surface. Beneath the welter of detail of Hecate County life, beneath the venomous satire, Wilson has contrived a tight little allegory, set up against an inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which compelled both men to allegorize are the same. Cut off from his Puritan heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions...