Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debunking job, The Way Our People Lived includes eleven sober chapters crawl ing with facts (most of them curious) about the day-to-day living habits, laws and institutions of nine American genera tions. Typical chapters: A Day in a Vir ginia Planter's Life; A Puritan Village in 1680; New York in 1008. Some odd ments...
...beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of early faith...
...modulated and civilized, never quite sustaining the masterpiece proportions of their best contributions, never lacking passages of extraordinary penetration, and always written in prose as dusky and subdued as the firelit Harvard study he describes. The first of his books to reach a big U.S. audience was The Last Puritan in 1936. It was far less important and far more difficult than Persons and Places. For the complexities of Latin American politics and cultural relations have cleared enough to show how central a figure the philosopher has always been, how many current political problems are exemplified in his work, opinions...
...That night the father goes back for the first time to the store. A shy young sailor (Henry Morgan) turns up. He is the dead boy's closest comrade. Together the boy's father and his friend clink cut-glass cups of loganberry wine, in the mild Puritan salute which had first linked father & son as mature males...
...Puritan-Protestant Idea. The fact that Beard was no crude materialist has been apparent for years to those who have read his occasional magazine articles. Beard's vision of America has always been rooted in a moral idea, the Puritan-Protestant idea of "take care of your family and lend a helping hand to those who deserve...